Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 6:14

14 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 .

Not the Lords of the Philistines, but the Bethshemites, to wit, the Priests that dwelt there.

There may seem to be a double Error in this Act. First, that they Offered Females for a Burnt-Offering, contrary to Levit. 1. 3. and 22. 19. Secondly, That they did it in a forbidden place, Deut. 12. 5, 6. into which they might easily be led by excess of Joy, and eager desire of returning to their long-interrupted course of Offering Sacrifices. And some think these Irregularities were partial Causes of the following Punishment. But this case being very extraordinary, may in some sort excuse it, if they did not proceed by ordinary Rules. As for the first, though they might not chuse Females for that use: yet when God himself had chosen, and in a manner Consecrated them to his service, and imployed them in so Sacred and Glotious a Work, it may seem tollerable to offer them to the Lord, as being his peculiar, and improper for any other use. And for the latter, we have many instances of Sacrifices offered to God by Prophets, and Holy Men, in other places, besides the Tabernacle, upon extraordinary occasions, such as this certainly was; it being fit, that the Ark should at its first return be re[illegible: 1+ letters]eived with Thanksgiving and Sacrifice; and this Place being Sanctified by the presence of the Ark, which was the very soul of the Tabernacle, and that by which the Tabernacle it self was Sanctified, and for whose sake the Sacrifices were offered at the door of the Tabernacle.