1 Samuel 6:20
“And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God? and to whom shal he goe vp from vs?”
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1 Samuel 6:20 Context
18And the golden Mice according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines, belonging to the fiue lordes, both of fenced cities, and of countrey villages, euen vnto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set downe the Arke of the Lord; which stone remaineth vnto this day, in the field of Ioshua the Bethshemite. 19¶ And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the Arke of the Lord, euen he smote of the people fiftie thousand, and threescore and tenne men: and the people lamented, because the Lord had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter. 20And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God? and to whom shal he goe vp from vs? 21¶ And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-iearim, saying, The Philistines haue brought againe the Arke of the Lord; come ye downe, and fetch it vp to you.
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And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
- King James Version
The men of Beth-shemesh said, "Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? And to whom shall He go up from us?"
- New American Standard Version (1995)