Today's Favorite Verse: 1 Samuel 6:19-20
"And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?"
The Philistines send back the ark of the covenant, with a trespass offering to see if they would be healed. They wanted to know if the evil that fell upon them was from the Israelite God or if by chance.
"And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth-shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us."
(1 Samuel 6:9)
If only the Israelites in Beth-shemesh had been so careful. For they looked into the ark and God smote them. They didn't hold sacred that which was sacred.
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