The Israelites And Philistines Views On The Ark Of The Covenant

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1. The Israelites and Philistines had different yet identical views on the powers of the Ark of the Covenant. One instance, which really interested me, was reading the reference the Philistines made to Moses and the plague that his God had brought upon Egypt (1 Samuel 4:8-9). This shows that they knew the power that it had and what God is capable of doing. But, their way of dealing with the plague was different than you would expect because they passed the Ark around from principal to principal. They all contracted some kind of disease, which they associated with the Ark (1 Samuel 5:1-12). The Israelites saw this as the symbol of their faith because one they brought it to their city when the Philistines were attacking them hoping that it would protect them from losing the battle (1 Samuel 4:1-6). Then the protectors of the Ark were killed, which in a way I feel like God did purposely so that the Philistines can understand the God of the Israelites. 2. I believe in a way that the Israelites used the Ark as a last resort when fighting the Philistines, “‘Why has the Lord put us to rout today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord here from Shiloh, so that he may I do believe that the cross and Bible are symbols of our faith and walk with Christ. One, the bible tell us the history of our churches and the word of God, although, it can be used to justify the things that people do I believe that its main purpose is to tell us what we have gone through and who our God is. In orthodoxy, the cross is a very important item because it symbolizes the we believe in God and also when you’re baptized as a child you God parent gives you a cross to symbolize the commit to God that they made to help you grow in the faith. Another, reason the cross is important is because it symbolizes the death and love that Jesus had for us. I mean he sacrificed himself for our sakes and that is what the cross symbolizes to me our commitment to God and his

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