So they sent and gathered together all YY s of the Plishtim, and said, Send away the ark of the Elohim of Yisrael, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of Elohim was very heavy there.
And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that happened to us.
And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of YY was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.
Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of YY is gone out against me.