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Title: The pictorial Bible and commentator: presenting the great truths of God's word in the most simple, pleasing, affectionate, and instructive manner
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Cobbin, Ingram, 1777-1851 March, Daniel, 1816-1909 Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893 Stretton, Hesba, 1832-1911
Subjects: Jesus Christ John, the Apostle, Saint Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia (etc.) Bradley, Garretson & co. Columbus, Ohio (etc.) W. Garretson & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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L CART. of them—why then they should be sure that something wonderful wasabout the ark, and that God did all that they suffered; but, if they did gohome, then it was all mere chance—though this last idea was very foolish,because they had seen enough to convince any but the most obstinate thatthere was no mere chance in what had come upon them. Well, though the cows had never been trained for the yoke—and had nodriver—and were left to go their own way—and had lost their calves, andwent on lowing for them—instead of turning where they were gone, theytook the straight way to Beth-shemesh, the next city in the land of Israel,and though it was eight or ten miles off, they never stopped, and the lordsof the Philistines, who watched their motions, saw them cross the border ofBeth-shemesh: And they of Beth-shemesh were reaping their wheatharvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, andrejoiced to see it. And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Beth-
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272 Bible and Commentato shemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave thewood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt-offering unto the Lord • forhaving carried the sacred ark, they could no more be used for commonpurposes. The Philistines saw all this done, and returned. And now a dreadful punishment befell the men of Beth-shemesh. Theydid not treat the ark with that reverence which God ordered it to have, as the sign that he was among the peo-ple, and he visited them with severepunishment; for he smote the menof Beth-shemesh, because they hadlooked into the ark of the Lord, evenhe smote of the people fifty thousandand threescore and ten men. Wellmight the men of Beth-shemesh say,Who is able to stand before thisholy Lord God? The men of Beth-shemesh left theark on a stone in an open field; andthe men of Kirjath-jearim fetched itaway, and took it to the house ofAbinadab, and sanctified or set apartEleazar his son to keep it, so that itmight not be seized

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