Agreement Almighty Ark Armies Bring Carried Cherubim Cherubs Covenant Dwelleth Eli Eli's Enthroned God's Got Hophni Hosts Inhabiting Ones Phinehas Phin'ehas Resting-place Shiloh Sits Sitteth Sons Thence Winged
4:4 So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which {b} dwelleth [between] the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, [were] there with the ark of the covenant of God.
(b) For he used to appear to the Israelites between the cherubim over the ark of the covenant, Ex 25:17.
4:4 Bring the ark - This they should not have done without asking counsel of God.
4:1-9 Israel is smitten before the Philistines. Sin, the accursed thing, was in the camp, and gave their enemies all the advantage they could wish for. They own the hand of God in their trouble; but, instead of submitting, they speak angrily, as not aware of any just provocation they had given him. The foolishness of man perverts his way, and then his heart frets against the Lord, Pr 19:3, and finds fault with him. They supposed that they could oblige God to appear for them, by bringing the ark into their camp. Those who have gone back in the life of religion, sometimes discover great fondness for the outward observances of it, as if those would save them; and as if the ark, God's throne, in the camp, would bring them to heaven, though the world and the flesh are on the throne in the heart.
Almighty Ark Armies Carried Cherubim Covenant Dwelleth Eli Eli's Enthroned Hophni Hosts Phinehas Phin'ehas Shiloh Sits Sitteth Thence
Almighty Ark Armies Carried Cherubim Covenant Dwelleth Eli Eli's Enthroned Hophni Hosts Phinehas Phin'ehas Shiloh Sits Sitteth Thence
