Overview
The Bible addresses cart across 10 verses, drawn from the Old Testament. These passages cluster most in 1 Samuel and Isaiah. Closely related themes include Ark of the Covenant, Kirjath-Jearim, Miracles and Philistines.
Key Bible verses about cart
Old Testament
1 Samuel
Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:
And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.
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. he: or, it
And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.
And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.
And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.
Isaiah
For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
In the Bible dictionary
Studying cart for yourself
- Begin with 1 Samuel 6:7, then read the passages below in canonical order.
- Compare how 1 Samuel and Isaiah each treat the theme.
- Widen the study to related themes: Ark of the Covenant, Kirjath-Jearim, Miracles and Philistines.
Frequently asked questions
What does the Bible say about cart?
The Bible addresses cart across 10 verses, drawn from the Old Testament. These passages cluster most in 1 Samuel and Isaiah. Closely related themes include Ark of the Covenant, Kirjath-Jearim, Miracles and Philistines.
How many Bible verses are about cart?
The Bible references cart in 10 verses (King James Version).
Where does the Bible first mention cart?
In canonical order, the first of these passages is 1 Samuel 6:7: “Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:”
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