When Israel went to battle against the Philistines they assumed that they could bring out the ark of the covenant to the battlefield, and that it’s presence would either oblige God to win the battle for them or that the object itself had some kind of mystical power. They were sorely mistaken, and the Philistines captured the ark. The Philistines assumed that their victory was a victory over Israel’s God, and so they place in Dagon’s temple. Time and again, however, the Lord silently causes anguish for the Philistines wherever the ark is taken, until finally, they become desperate to send it back.


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Christian Standard Bible translation.

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