1 SAMUEL 6:1 TO 1 SAMUEL 7:1. ARK BROUGHT BACK TO BETH-SHEMESH; PLAGUE
BREAKS OUT THERE; ARK HOUSED AT KIRIATH-JEARIM.
1 Samuel 6:1 may not belong to the main story; 2 would be a better
continuation of 1 Samuel 5:12. At the end of the verse LXX adds And
their land swarmed with mice. This would prep... [ Continue Reading ]
SAMUEL AS JUDGE. Philistines subdued by Divine intervention; probably
an ideal picture, by the Deuteronomic writer, of the happy results of
Israel's repentance and Samuel's piety peace, victory, and orthodoxy.
The section is the typical form of the Deuteronomic accounts of the
Judges apostasy, oppre... [ Continue Reading ]