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Verse 1 Samuel 5:12. _THE MEN THAT DIED NOT_] Some it seems were
smitten with _instant death_; others with the _haemorrhoids_, and
there was a universal consternation; and _the cry of the city went up...
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6. THE ARK IN THE HANDS OF THE PHILISTINES AND ITS RETURN
CHAPTER 5
_ 1. The ark in the house of Dagon (1 Samuel 5:1)_
2. The Philistines smitten by Jehovah (1 Samuel 5:6)
The ark was brought to As...
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1 SAMUEL 5. THE ARK IN THE PHILISTINE CITIES.
1 Samuel 5:1. Ashdod. 1 Samuel 5:8. Gath. 1 Samuel 5:10. Ekron: see
Joshua 11:22;...
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_the cry of the city went up to heaven_ Cp. Exodus 2:13. The word used
always denotes a _supplication_, a _cry for help_.
Each city was visited with a heavier judgment than the preceding one.
"The lo...
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AND THE MEN THAT DIED NOT, &C.— The doctrine of intercommunity led
the heathens into the custom of changing one tutelary deity for
another; but the God of the Israelites had an absolute abhorrence of...
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_The Ark in Ekron._ 1 Samuel 5:10-12
10 Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass,
as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying,
They have brought about...
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_AND THE MEN THAT DIED NOT WERE SMITTEN WITH THE EMERODS: AND THE CRY
OF THE CITY WENT UP TO HEAVEN._
The cry of the city went up to heaven. The disease is attended with
acute pain, and it is far fro...
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So the protest of the Ekronites was not attended to. The Philistines
were unwilling to part with their trophy....
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THE ARK AMONG THE PHILISTINES
1. Ashdod] on an elevation overlooking the Philistine plain midway
between Gaza and Joppa, and 3 m. from the Mediterranean. Its
importance consisted in the fact that it...
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ISRAEL’S FIRST KING
1 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 5
THE *ARK OF GOD CAUSES TROUBLE FOR THE *PHILISTINES
V1 When the *Philistines stole the *ark of God they took it from
Ebenezer to the town o...
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וְ הָֽ אֲנָשִׁים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא ־מֵ֔תוּ
הֻכּ֖וּ
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CHAPTER VII.
_ THE ARK AMONG THE PHILISTINES._
1 Samuel 5:1; 1 Samuel 6:1
ALTHOUGH the history in Samuel is silent as to the doings of the
Philistines immediately after their great victory over Isra...
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THE CAPTURED ARK BRINGS TROUBLE
1 Samuel 5:1
Dagon's fall before the Ark of God has a sublime significance. In the
evening, as the priests left the temple, the hideous image stood erect
on its pedest...
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This is a story of supreme and arresting interest, showing as it does
how, when the people of God fail to bear testimony for Him among the
nations, He becomes His own witness.
The Ark was not a charm...
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_Die, at the sight of the ark, as the Bethsamites did afterwards.
(Menochius)_...
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REFLECTIONS
How very precious it is to observe, the attention which God hath over
his own cause. Though Israel is sunk so low as to be supine and
inattentive to the attempt of recovering the ark, yet...
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(8) They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines
unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of
Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be ca...
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The first Book of Samuel (or of Kings as with some) brings before us
that great change for which the Book of Ruth was a preparation, and in
order to which the Spirit of God closed it with the generati...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6.
In chapter 4 the enemies of God and of His people display their
strength; the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel. God,
in overrul...
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AND THE MEN THAT DIED NOT WERE SMITTEN WITH THE EMERODS,.... As the
inhabitants of Ashdod and Gath had been; this shows that those that
died did not die of that disease, but of some other; very likely...
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And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry
of the city went up to heaven.
Ver. 12. _And the men that died not were smitten, &c._] All that were
smitten with emerods died not...
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_There was a deadly destruction through all the city_ That is, in
every city where the ark of God came, some were struck with the
pestilence and died, and others lingered under intolerable pains,
whic...
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1 The Philistines hauing brought the Arke into Ashdod, set it in the
house of Dagon.
3 Dagon is smitten downe and cut in pieces, and they of Ashdod smitten
with Emerods.
8 So God dealeth with them o...
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THE ARK IN GATH AND EKRON...
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And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods, being
extremely ill with the boil-sickness; AND THE CRY OF THE CITY WENT UP
TO HEAVEN, for the Philistines were forced to acknowledge that in t...
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Though God had allowed the Philistines to gain the victory, He very
soon spoils their pleasure in having captured the ark, taking it to
Ashdod. They think the most fit place for it is in the house of...
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6-12 The hand of the Lord was heavy upon the Philistines; he not only
convinced them of their folly, but severely chastised their insolence.
Yet they would not renounce Dagon; and instead of seeking...
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1 Samuel 5:12 men H582 die H4191 (H8804) stricken H5221 (H8717) tumors
H2914 (H8675) H6076 cry...
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THE ARK OF GOD BRINGS MISERY AND PLAGUE ON THE PHILISTINES WHO
DISRESPECT IT (1 SAMUEL 5:6).
What happened in the house of Dagon was not the only thing that was to
trouble the Philistines. Soon a drea...
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CONTENTS: Ark of God a curse to Philistines.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: Sacred signs are not things that God is tied to or that
man can trust to for blessing. His presence may be a savour of life...
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1 Samuel 5:1. _Ashdod,_ afterwards called Azotus. Acts 8:40.
1 Samuel 5:2. _The ark and set it by Dagon._ See Judges 10:6;...
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_The cry of the city._
THE CRY OF THE CITY
There is a hum of the city in its ceaseless activity, a shout in its
occasional excitement, a song in its periodic mirth, but a cry in its
constant want, d...
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—
1 Samuel 5:6. “HE DESTROYED THEM.” From 1 Samuel 6:4; 1 Samuel
6:11; 1 Samuel 6:18, where, besides the vot
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EXPOSITION
THE ARK OF GOD IN PHILISTIA (1 Samuel 5:1).
1 SAMUEL 5:1
THE PHILISTINES TOOK THE ARK OF GOD. The silence of Scri
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Now the Philistines took this ark of the covenant, and they brought it
to one of their cities on the coast the city of Ashdod. And they put
the ark of the covenant in their temple of their god Dagon,...
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1 Kings 19:17; 1 Samuel 9:16; Amos 5:19; Exodus 12:30; Isaiah 15:3;...
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THE ARK IN THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES
1 Samuel 5:1; 1 Samuel 6:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
There are several things we think should be emphasized.
1. EBENEZER MEANS "HITHERTO HATH THE LORD HELPED US." Wh...