The Ark of God Delivered (1)

The Ark had fallen into the hands of the Philistines. In the language of the Psalmist, the Lord had delivered His strength into captivity, and His glory into the enemies' hand. And the question was what the Philistines would do with God. By the treatment that they afforded God's Ark and His people, they heaped contempt upon His name. The Ark they brought into Dagon's temple as an offering to him by whose assistance they imagined that they had achieved the victory; and they set the Ark near...