The ark of Yahweh was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
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TSK · 1 Samuel 5:3
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Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!
The burden of Egypt: "Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst.
So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good;" and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.
Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols are on the animals, and on the livestock: the things that you carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary [animal].
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, "You are the Son of God!"
Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?