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This chapter continues the first section of the book, chapters 1–7, which describe Samuel as a religious leader of Israel. It concludes a story that provides background for how Samuel helped the Israelites genuinely worship Yahweh again. This chapter describes how the Philistines returned the Box of the Covenant to the Israelites in a way that confirmed that Yahweh had struck them with plagues to punish them for taking it.
The list of cities in 1 Samuel 6:17 is similar to the list of kings in Joshua 12:9–24. If you have already translated the book of Joshua, see how you formatted that list. You may wish to format the list here similarly.
The Philistine leaders asked their priests what they should do with the Box. The priests said to send it back with an offering that showed they were sorry for taking it. The Philistines put the Box on a cart. They had two cows pull the cart, and they let them go wherever they wanted. Even though the cows had just given birth and were nursing their calves, they left their calves behind and walked straight to Israel, to the town of Beth Shemesh. This convinced the Philistines that Yahweh had indeed been punishing them with plagues for taking his Box. The people of Beth Shemesh sacrificed the cows as an offering to thank Yahweh that the Box was back in Israel.
Yahweh killed many people in the town of Beth Shemesh because they looked into the Box of the Covenant. Those people had violated the sacred boundary around holy things that the law of Moses commanded the Israelites to observe.