## Targum Jonathan on I Samuel Chapter 6

###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 6:1
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וַהֲוָה אֲרוֹנָא דַייָ בְּקִרְוֵי פְלִשְׁתָּאֵי שַׁבְעָא יַרְחִין:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
And the ark of the LORD was in the cities of the Philistines seven months.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 6:2
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וּקְרוֹ פְלִשְׁתָּאֵי לְכוּמָרַיָא וּלְקָסְמַיָא לְמֵימַר מָה נַעְבֵּיד לַאֲרוֹנָא דַייָ הוֹדִיעוּנָנָא בַּמֶה נְשַׁלְחִינֵיהּ לְאַתְרֵיהּ:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, “What shall we do with the ark of the LORD? Let us know with what we shall send it to its place.”


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 6:3
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וַאֲמַרוּ אִם אַתּוּן מְשַׁלְחִין יַת אֲרוֹן אֱלָהָא דְיִשְׂרָאֵל לָא תְשַׁלְחוּן יָתֵיהּ רֵיקָן אֱלָהֵין אֲתָבָא תְּתִיבוּן קֳדָמוֹהִי קֻרְבַּן אֲשָׁמָא בְּכֵן תִּתָּסוּן וְיִתְרְוַח לְכוֹן לְמָה לָא תְנוּחַ מְחָתֵיהּ מִנְכוֹן:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
And they said, “If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty, for you shall by all means return before Him a guilt offering. Then you will be healed and it will be relieved to you. Why would his stroke not rest from you?”


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 6:4
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וַאֲמַרוּ מַה קֻרְבַּן אֲשָׁמָא דְנָתִיב קֳדָמוֹהִי וַאֲמַרוּ מִנְיַן טוּרְנֵי פְלִשְׁתָּאֵי חַמְשָׁא טְחוֹרֵי דַהֲבָא וְחַמְשָׁא עַכְבְּרֵי דַהֲבָא אֲרֵי מְחָתָא חֲדָא שַׁוְיָא לְכוּלְהוֹן וּלְטוּרְנֵיכוֹן:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
When they said, “What is the guilt offering that we shall return before Him?” they said, “The number of the chiefs of the Philistines: five golden haemorrhoids and five golden mice, for the one stroke was equally on all of you and on your chiefs.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 6:5
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וְתַעְבְּדוּן צַלְמֵי טְחוֹרֵיכוֹן וְצַלְמֵי עַכְבְּרֵיכוֹן דִמְחַבְּלִין יַת אַרְעָא וְתִתְּנוּן קֳדָם אֱלָהָא דְיִשְׂרָאֵל יְקָרָא מָאִים תָּנוּחַ מְחָתֵיהּ מִנְכוֹן וּמִן טַעֲוַתְכוֹן וּמִן אַרְעֲכוֹן:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
So you must make images of your haemorrhoids and images of your mice that ravaged the land, and you shall give glory before the God of Israel. Perhaps his stroke will rest from you and your idols and your land.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 6:6
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וּלְמָה תְיַקְרִין יַת לִבְּכוֹן כְּמָא דְיַקְרוּ מִצְרָאֵי וּפַרְעֹה יַת לִבְּהוֹן הֲלָא כַּד אִתְפְּרַע מִנְהוֹן וּבָתַר כֵן שַׁלְחִינוּן וַאֲזָלוּ:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
Why should you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and the pharaoh hardened their hearts? Was that not when revenge was taken on them? And afterwards they sent them away and they went.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 6:7
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וּכְעַן סְבוּ וַעֲבִידוּ עֲגָלָתָא חַדְתָּא חֲדָא וְתַרְתֵּן תּוֹרָן מְיַנְקָן דִי לָא נְגַדָא בְּנִיר וְתֵיסְרוּן יַת תּוֹרָתָא בַּעֲגָלָתָא וּתְתִיבוּן בְּנֵיהֶן מִבַּתְרֵיהֶן לְגָיו:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
Now then, take and prepare one new cart and two milch cows which have never pulled in a yoke. And bind the cows to the cart, but send their calves back inside, so that they cannot follow them.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 6:8
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וְתִסְבּוּן יַת אֲרוֹנָא דַייָ וְתִתְּנוּן יָתֵיהּ בַּעֲגָלָתָא וְיַת מָנֵי דַהֲבָא דַאֲתֵיבְתּוּן קֳדָמוֹהִי קֻרְבַּן אֲשָׁמָא תְּשַׁווּן בְּתֵיבוּתָא מִסִטְרֵיהּ וְתִשְׁלְחוּן יָתֵיהּ וְיֵהָךְ:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
And you shall take the ark of the LORD and put it down on the cart. And you shall place in a box at its side the golden figures which you are returning before Him as a guilt offering. Then you shall send it off, and it will go.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 6:9
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וְתֶחֱזוּן אִם בְּאוֹרַח תְּחוּמֵיהּ יִסַק לְבֵית שֶׁמֶשׁ מִן קֳדָמוֹהִי אִתְעֲבִידַת לָנָא יַת בִּישְׁתָא רַבְּתָא הָדָא וְאִם לָא וְנִידַע אֲרֵי לָא מְחָתֵיהּ קְרִיבַת בָּנָא עֵירוּעַ הוּא דַהֲוָה לָנָא:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
And you shall watch: if it goes up on the way of its own territory, to Beth shemesh, then this great harm was done from before Him; but if not, then we shall know that it was not his stroke that came near to us, it happened to us by chance.”


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 6:10
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וַעֲבַדוּ גַבְרַיָא כֵּן וּנְסִיבוּ תַּרְתֵּין תּוֹרָן מְיַנְקָן וְאַסְרוּנוּן בַּעֲגָלָתָא וְיַת בְּנֵיהֶן כָּלוּ בְּבֵיתָא:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
And the men did so, and led two milch cows and bound them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 6:11
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וְשַׁוִיאוּ יַת אֲרוֹנָא דַייָ בַּעֲגָלָתָא וְיַת תֵּיבוּתָא וְיַת עַכְבְּרֵי דַהֲבָא וְיַת צַלְמֵי טְחוֹרֵיהוֹן:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
And they put the ark of the LORD on the cart, and the box and the golden mice and the images of their haemorrhoids.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 6:12
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וְאַכְוֵינָא תּוֹרָתָא בְּאָרְחָא עַל אוֹרַח בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ בִּכְבִישָׁא חֲדָא אָזְלִין מֵיזַל וְנָעַיָן וְלָא סְטָאָה לְיַמִינָא וְלִסְמְאָלָא וְטוּרְנֵי פְלִשְׁתָּאֵי אָזְלִין בַּתְרֵיהוֹן עַד תְּחוּם בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
And the cows went straight on the way, in the direction of Beth shemesh, along one highway, lowing as they went. They turned neither to the right nor to the left, and the chiefs of the Philistines went after them as far as the border of Beth shemesh.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 6:13
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וּבֵית שֶׁמֶשׁ חַצְדִין חֲצַד חִטִין בְּמֵישְׁרָא וּזְקָפוּ יַת עֵינֵיהוֹן וַחֲזוֹ יַת אֲרוֹנָא וַחֲדִיאוּ לְמֶחְזֵי:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
And Beth shemesh was harvesting the wheat harvest in the valley; and when they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, they rejoiced to see it.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 6:14
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וַעֲגָלָתָא אָתַת לַחֲקַל יְהוֹשֻׁעַ דִי בְּבֵית שֶׁמֶשׁ וְקָמָא תַמָן וְתַמָן אַבְנָא רַבְּתָא וְצַלָחוּ יַת אֲעֵי עֲגָלָתָא וְיַת תּוֹרָתָא אַסִיקוּ עֲלָתָא קֳדָם יְיָ:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
The cart went to the field of Joshua, who was of Beth shemesh, and stood there. And a great stone was there; and they split up the wood of the cart and sacrificed the cows as a burnt offering before the LORD.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 6:15
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וְלֵוָאֵי אָחִיתוּ יַת אָרוֹנָא דַייָ וְיַת תֵּיבוּתָא דִי עִמֵיהּ דִי בֵיהּ מָנֵי דַהֲבָא וְשַׁוִיאוּ עַל אַבְנָא רַבְּתָא וְגַבְרֵי בֵית שֶׁמֶשׁ אַסִיקוּ עֲלַוָן וּנְכִיסוּ נִכְסַת קוּדְשִׁין בְּיוֹמָא הַהוּא קֳדָם יְיָ:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD and the box that was with it, in which were the golden things, and put them upon the great stone. And the men of Beth shemesh sacrificed burnt offerings and slaughtered holy sacrifices on that day before the LORD.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 6:16
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וְחַמְשָׁא טוּרְנֵי פְלִשְׁתָּאֵי חֲזוֹ וְתָבוּ לְעֶקְרוֹן בְּיוֹמָא הַהוּא:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
And when the five chiefs of the Philistines saw it, they returned that day to Ekron.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 6:17
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וְאִלֵין טְחוֹרֵי דַהֲבָא דַאֲתִיבוּ פְלִשְׁתָּאֵי קֻרְבַן אֲשָׁמָא קֳדָם יְיָ דְאַשְׁדוֹד חַד דְעַזָה חַד דְאַשְׁקְלוֹן חַד דְגַת חַד דְעֶקְרוֹן חַד:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
These are the golden haemorrhoids which the Philistines returned as a guilt offering before the LORD: one of Ashdod, one of Gaza, one of Ashkelon, one of Gath, one of Ekron.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 6:18
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וְעַכְבְּרֵי דַהֲבָא מִנְיַן כָּל קִרְוֵי פְלִשְׁתָּאֵי לְחַמְשָׁא טוּרְנַיָא מִקִירְוִין כְּרִיכָן וְעַד קִירְוֵי פַצְחַיָא וְעַד אַבְנָא רַבְּתָא דַאֲחִיתוּ עֲלָהּ יַת אֲרוֹנָא דַייָ עַד יוֹמָא הָדֵין הָא הִיא בַּחֲקַל יְהוֹשֻׁעַ דְמִבֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
And the golden mice, the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five chiefs, from the fortified cities unto the unwalled cities, and unto the great stone on which they returned the ark of the LORD, to this day. Behold, it is in the field of Joshua who was of Beth shemesh.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 6:19
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וּקְטַל בְּגַבְרֵי בֵית שֶׁמֶשׁ עַל דְחָדִיאוּ דַחֲזוֹ אֲרוֹנָא דַייָ כַּד גְלֵי וּקְטַל בְּסָבֵי עַמָא שַׁבְעִין גַבְרָא וּבִקְהָלָא חַמְשִׁין אַלְפֵי גַבְרָא וְאִתְאַבָּלוּ עַמָא אֲרֵי מְחָא יְיָ בְּעַמָא מָחָא סַגִיאָה:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
And He killed among the men of Beth shemesh, because they rejoiced as they saw the ark of the LORD, when it was exposed; and He killed among the elders of the people seventy men and among the assembly fifty thousand men. And the people mourned, because the LORD had made a great stroke among the people.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 6:20
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וַאֲמָרוּ גַבְרֵי בֵית שֶׁמֶשׁ מַן יָכִיל לְמֵיקַם קֳדָם אֲרוֹנָא דַייָ אֱלֹהִים קַדִישָׁא הָדֵין וּלְאֵידֵין אֲתַר יִסְתַּלֵק מִנָנָא:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
Then the men of Beth shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before the ark of the LORD, this holy God? And to what place shall it be brought up, away from us?”


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 6:21
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וּשְׁלָחוּ אִזְגַדִין לְוַת יַתְבֵי קִרְיַת יְעָרִים לְמֵימַר אָתִיבוּ פְלִשְׁתָּאֵי יַת אֲרוֹנָא דַייָ חוּתוּ אַסִיקוּ יָתֵיהּ לְוַתְכוֹן:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the LORD. Come down and take it up to you.”