Fifty thousand and seventy men] These were not all of the Citie Bethshemesh, but of the people also of neighbouring townes and places, that came rejoycing ro see the Arke returned; but over-boldly gazing on it bare and uncovered, by the Philistines, or by themselves, contrary to the Law, Num. IV. 5, 20. If not prying presumptuously into it, out of an impious curiosity, or a pretence to see whether the Philistines had taken ought out of it, or put any thing into it.