2007-12-29 02:48:18 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sure it's true. They dishonored God by looking to a material object as some kind of "good luck charm" instead of turning away from their sins and seeking help from God himself.
1 Samuel 4:1 And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out to battle against the Philistines. They encamped at Ebenezer, and the Philistines encamped at Aphek. 2 The Philistines drew up in line against Israel, and when the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men on the field of battle.
3 And when the troops came to the camp, the elders of Israel said, "Why has the LORD defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD here from Shiloh, that it may come among us and save us from the power of our enemies."
(God allowed them to be defeated because there was sin being practiced, not because the ark wasn't with them)
4 So the people sent to Shiloh and brought from there the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, who is enthroned on the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God. 5 As soon as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel gave a mighty shout, so that the earth resounded.
6 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shouting, they said, "What does this great shouting in the camp of the Hebrews mean?" And when they learned that the ark of the LORD had come to the camp, 7 the Philistines were afraid, for they said, "A god has come into the camp." And they said, "Woe to us! For nothing like this has happened before. 8 Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the power of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with every sort of plague in the wilderness. 9 Take courage, and be men, O Philistines, lest you become slaves to the Hebrews as they have been to you; be men and fight."
10 So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled, every man to his home. And there was a very great slaughter, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers. 11 And the ark of God was captured, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.
2007-12-29 02:51:17 · answer #1 · answered by Martin S 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is true. The Ark of the Covenent was no guarantee against defeat in battle, expecially from an errant Israel.
2007-12-29 02:54:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. They took the ark in a battle when that was never the plan of God. The Ark was meant to be in the tabernacle.
2007-12-29 02:52:22 · answer #3 · answered by Southern Apostolic 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes its true -obedience was the key to its power
it happened before the temple was built in my peoples time of rebellion, and two times whent he temple was destroyed, the final time it was kept from knowing where it is. Yet, the final time 70AD CE the Messiah had already come to fulfill the blood sacrifice so it was no longer needed to cover sins because he had taken away sins by believing in Him.
Leviticus 17:11 no forgiveness without the shedding of blood, Isaiah 53 He will be rejected and lay down his life to make atonement for our sins.
2007-12-29 06:28:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes many times, because they were stiff necked people. In Samuel times it was capture by the Phillistines but was returned to the Israelites. It wasn't always a guarantee of victory in war, they should trust GOD the more...
2007-12-29 02:57:45 · answer #5 · answered by Mikey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2007-12-29 03:08:02 · answer #6 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Under what title was this fiction published? We know there is no truth here.
2007-12-29 02:54:11 · answer #7 · answered by RT 66 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hehe Creative answers for everything. God even covers his butt when he loses a war. Never his fault is it.
2007-12-29 02:58:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋