How to rightly submit to God – 1st Samuel 4:1b-7:17, Part 5

After the first three chapters of 1st Samuel focusing on Samuel’s birth and childhood, we’ve now read through more chapters, 4 through 6, with no mention of Samuel. Where is Samuel through all the craziness of the Ark of the Covenant’s capture? The narrative doesn’t tell us, so we can safely guess that during thoseContinue reading “How to rightly submit to God – 1st Samuel 4:1b-7:17, Part 5”

The mysterious events around the Ark of the Covenant – 1st Samuel 4:1b-7:17, Part 4

Does the Ark of the Covenant have power? In the previous post, we learned that the Israelites thought all they needed to do was bring the Ark out to the battlefield, and God would give them victory over the Philistines. We learned the Israelites were wrong. Instead of the Ark destroying the Philistines, the PhilistinesContinue reading “The mysterious events around the Ark of the Covenant – 1st Samuel 4:1b-7:17, Part 4”