Israel goes to war against the Philistines and loses badly, 4,000 dead. The elders decide to bring the ark of the covenant from Shiloh, thinking it will give them victory as it gave Joshua victory at Jericho. But the ark is not a talisman. It is the throne of the holy God who will not be manipulated into battle by those who have abandoned his covenant.
The second battle is worse: 30,000 infantry dead, including Hophni and Phinehas. The ark is captured. When the messenger reaches Shiloh with the news, Eli falls backward from his seat and breaks his neck at ninety-eight. Phinehas's wife, in labor when the news arrives, gives birth and names the child Ichabod, no glory, saying the glory has departed from Israel.
But the Philistines discover that keeping the ark is not the same as keeping YHWH. In Ashdod the statue of Dagon falls before the ark. Then falls again, this time with its head and hands broken off, leaving only the trunk, the posture of a helpless, armless god prostrating before the ark of Israel's God. Tumors break out across the city. The ark is moved city to city and disease follows. After seven months the Philistines send it back on a cart pulled by two milk cows, who head straight to Beth-shemesh without deviation, lowing as they go.
Thread 2 is the ark itself, the throne of the covenant God, being treated as a military asset and failing, because the covenant community's relationship with the God who sits enthroned there has broken down. Thread 5 is the dispensational diagnosis: the Mosaic administration is failing not because the law is wrong but because the hearts of the people are unchanged.
Ichabod, the glory has departed. The ark of the covenant captured by the Philistines is the OT's first major Shekinah-crisis before Ezekiel; and the Philistines discover that you cannot keep the ark without the God who inhabits it.
גָלָה כָבוֹד מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל (galah kavod mi-Yisrael): the glory has departed from Israel: galah kavod (the glory has gone into exile, galah is the exile word; the same verb used for the deportation of captive populations; the kavod has been exiled from Israel just as Israel will later be exiled from the land; Phinehas's wife names the child Ichabod, i-kavod, no glory, the glory is gone)
threads t2 · t5 · see 1 Samuel 6:1-16 · Psalm 78:60-61 · Ezekiel 10:18-19
Israel goes to war against the Philistines and loses badly, 4,000 dead. The elders decide to bring the ark of the covenant from Shiloh, thinking it will give them victory as it gave Joshua victory at Jericho. But the ark is not a talisman. It is the throne of the holy God who will not be manipulated into battle by those who have abandoned his covenant.
The second battle is worse: 30,000 infantry dead, including Hophni and Phinehas. The ark is captured. When the messenger reaches Shiloh with the news, Eli falls backward from his seat and breaks his neck at ninety-eight. Phinehas's wife, in labor when the news arrives, gives birth and names the child Ichabod, no glory, saying the glory has departed from Israel.
But the Philistines discover that keeping the ark is not the same as keeping YHWH. In Ashdod the statue of Dagon falls before the ark. Then falls again, this time with its head and hands broken off, leaving only the trunk, the posture of a helpless, armless god prostrating before the ark of Israel's God. Tumors break out across the city. The ark is moved city to city and disease follows. After seven months the Philistines send it back on a cart pulled by two milk cows, who head straight to Beth-shemesh without deviation, lowing as they go.
Thread 2 is the ark itself, the throne of the covenant God, being treated as a military asset and failing, because the covenant community's relationship with the God who sits enthroned there has broken down. Thread 5 is the dispensational diagnosis: the Mosaic administration is failing not because the law is wrong but because the hearts of the people are unchanged.
Ichabod, the glory has departed. The ark of the covenant captured by the Philistines is the OT's first major Shekinah-crisis before Ezekiel; and the Philistines discover that you cannot keep the ark without the God who inhabits it.
גָלָה כָבוֹד מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל (galah kavod mi-Yisrael): the glory has departed from Israel: galah kavod (the glory has gone into exile, galah is the exile word; the same verb used for the deportation of captive populations; the kavod has been exiled from Israel just as Israel will later be exiled from the land; Phinehas's wife names the child Ichabod, i-kavod, no glory, the glory is gone)
threads t2 · t5 · see 1 Samuel 6:1-16 · Psalm 78:60-61 · Ezekiel 10:18-19
Israel goes to war against the Philistines and loses badly, 4,000 dead. The elders decide to bring the ark of the covenant from Shiloh, thinking it will give them victory as it gave Joshua victory at Jericho. But the ark is not a talisman. It is the throne of the holy God who will not be manipulated into battle by those who have abandoned his covenant.
The second battle is worse: 30,000 infantry dead, including Hophni and Phinehas. The ark is captured. When the messenger reaches Shiloh with the news, Eli falls backward from his seat and breaks his neck at ninety-eight. Phinehas's wife, in labor when the news arrives, gives birth and names the child Ichabod, no glory, saying the glory has departed from Israel.
But the Philistines discover that keeping the ark is not the same as keeping YHWH. In Ashdod the statue of Dagon falls before the ark. Then falls again, this time with its head and hands broken off, leaving only the trunk, the posture of a helpless, armless god prostrating before the ark of Israel's God. Tumors break out across the city. The ark is moved city to city and disease follows. After seven months the Philistines send it back on a cart pulled by two milk cows, who head straight to Beth-shemesh without deviation, lowing as they go.
Thread 2 is the ark itself, the throne of the covenant God, being treated as a military asset and failing, because the covenant community's relationship with the God who sits enthroned there has broken down. Thread 5 is the dispensational diagnosis: the Mosaic administration is failing not because the law is wrong but because the hearts of the people are unchanged.
Ichabod, the glory has departed. The ark of the covenant captured by the Philistines is the OT's first major Shekinah-crisis before Ezekiel; and the Philistines discover that you cannot keep the ark without the God who inhabits it.
גָלָה כָבוֹד מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל (galah kavod mi-Yisrael): the glory has departed from Israel: galah kavod (the glory has gone into exile, galah is the exile word; the same verb used for the deportation of captive populations; the kavod has been exiled from Israel just as Israel will later be exiled from the land; Phinehas's wife names the child Ichabod, i-kavod, no glory, the glory is gone)
threads t2 · t5 · see 1 Samuel 6:1-16 · Psalm 78:60-61 · Ezekiel 10:18-19
Israel goes to war against the Philistines and loses badly, 4,000 dead. The elders decide to bring the ark of the covenant from Shiloh, thinking it will give them victory as it gave Joshua victory at Jericho. But the ark is not a talisman. It is the throne of the holy God who will not be manipulated into battle by those who have abandoned his covenant.
The second battle is worse: 30,000 infantry dead, including Hophni and Phinehas. The ark is captured. When the messenger reaches Shiloh with the news, Eli falls backward from his seat and breaks his neck at ninety-eight. Phinehas's wife, in labor when the news arrives, gives birth and names the child Ichabod, no glory, saying the glory has departed from Israel.
But the Philistines discover that keeping the ark is not the same as keeping YHWH. In Ashdod the statue of Dagon falls before the ark. Then falls again, this time with its head and hands broken off, leaving only the trunk, the posture of a helpless, armless god prostrating before the ark of Israel's God. Tumors break out across the city. The ark is moved city to city and disease follows. After seven months the Philistines send it back on a cart pulled by two milk cows, who head straight to Beth-shemesh without deviation, lowing as they go.
Thread 2 is the ark itself, the throne of the covenant God, being treated as a military asset and failing, because the covenant community's relationship with the God who sits enthroned there has broken down. Thread 5 is the dispensational diagnosis: the Mosaic administration is failing not because the law is wrong but because the hearts of the people are unchanged.
Ichabod, the glory has departed. The ark of the covenant captured by the Philistines is the OT's first major Shekinah-crisis before Ezekiel; and the Philistines discover that you cannot keep the ark without the God who inhabits it.
גָלָה כָבוֹד מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל (galah kavod mi-Yisrael): the glory has departed from Israel: galah kavod (the glory has gone into exile, galah is the exile word; the same verb used for the deportation of captive populations; the kavod has been exiled from Israel just as Israel will later be exiled from the land; Phinehas's wife names the child Ichabod, i-kavod, no glory, the glory is gone)
threads t2 · t5 · see 1 Samuel 6:1-16 · Psalm 78:60-61 · Ezekiel 10:18-19
Israel goes to war against the Philistines and loses badly, 4,000 dead. The elders decide to bring the ark of the covenant from Shiloh, thinking it will give them victory as it gave Joshua victory at Jericho. But the ark is not a talisman. It is the throne of the holy God who will not be manipulated into battle by those who have abandoned his covenant.
The second battle is worse: 30,000 infantry dead, including Hophni and Phinehas. The ark is captured. When the messenger reaches Shiloh with the news, Eli falls backward from his seat and breaks his neck at ninety-eight. Phinehas's wife, in labor when the news arrives, gives birth and names the child Ichabod, no glory, saying the glory has departed from Israel.
But the Philistines discover that keeping the ark is not the same as keeping YHWH. In Ashdod the statue of Dagon falls before the ark. Then falls again, this time with its head and hands broken off, leaving only the trunk, the posture of a helpless, armless god prostrating before the ark of Israel's God. Tumors break out across the city. The ark is moved city to city and disease follows. After seven months the Philistines send it back on a cart pulled by two milk cows, who head straight to Beth-shemesh without deviation, lowing as they go.
Thread 2 is the ark itself, the throne of the covenant God, being treated as a military asset and failing, because the covenant community's relationship with the God who sits enthroned there has broken down. Thread 5 is the dispensational diagnosis: the Mosaic administration is failing not because the law is wrong but because the hearts of the people are unchanged.
Ichabod, the glory has departed. The ark of the covenant captured by the Philistines is the OT's first major Shekinah-crisis before Ezekiel; and the Philistines discover that you cannot keep the ark without the God who inhabits it.
גָלָה כָבוֹד מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל (galah kavod mi-Yisrael): the glory has departed from Israel: galah kavod (the glory has gone into exile, galah is the exile word; the same verb used for the deportation of captive populations; the kavod has been exiled from Israel just as Israel will later be exiled from the land; Phinehas's wife names the child Ichabod, i-kavod, no glory, the glory is gone)
threads t2 · t5 · see 1 Samuel 6:1-16 · Psalm 78:60-61 · Ezekiel 10:18-19
Israel goes to war against the Philistines and loses badly, 4,000 dead. The elders decide to bring the ark of the covenant from Shiloh, thinking it will give them victory as it gave Joshua victory at Jericho. But the ark is not a talisman. It is the throne of the holy God who will not be manipulated into battle by those who have abandoned his covenant.
The second battle is worse: 30,000 infantry dead, including Hophni and Phinehas. The ark is captured. When the messenger reaches Shiloh with the news, Eli falls backward from his seat and breaks his neck at ninety-eight. Phinehas's wife, in labor when the news arrives, gives birth and names the child Ichabod, no glory, saying the glory has departed from Israel.
But the Philistines discover that keeping the ark is not the same as keeping YHWH. In Ashdod the statue of Dagon falls before the ark. Then falls again, this time with its head and hands broken off, leaving only the trunk, the posture of a helpless, armless god prostrating before the ark of Israel's God. Tumors break out across the city. The ark is moved city to city and disease follows. After seven months the Philistines send it back on a cart pulled by two milk cows, who head straight to Beth-shemesh without deviation, lowing as they go.
Thread 2 is the ark itself, the throne of the covenant God, being treated as a military asset and failing, because the covenant community's relationship with the God who sits enthroned there has broken down. Thread 5 is the dispensational diagnosis: the Mosaic administration is failing not because the law is wrong but because the hearts of the people are unchanged.
Ichabod, the glory has departed. The ark of the covenant captured by the Philistines is the OT's first major Shekinah-crisis before Ezekiel; and the Philistines discover that you cannot keep the ark without the God who inhabits it.
גָלָה כָבוֹד מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל (galah kavod mi-Yisrael): the glory has departed from Israel: galah kavod (the glory has gone into exile, galah is the exile word; the same verb used for the deportation of captive populations; the kavod has been exiled from Israel just as Israel will later be exiled from the land; Phinehas's wife names the child Ichabod, i-kavod, no glory, the glory is gone)
threads t2 · t5 · see 1 Samuel 6:1-16 · Psalm 78:60-61 · Ezekiel 10:18-19
Israel goes to war against the Philistines and loses badly, 4,000 dead. The elders decide to bring the ark of the covenant from Shiloh, thinking it will give them victory as it gave Joshua victory at Jericho. But the ark is not a talisman. It is the throne of the holy God who will not be manipulated into battle by those who have abandoned his covenant.
The second battle is worse: 30,000 infantry dead, including Hophni and Phinehas. The ark is captured. When the messenger reaches Shiloh with the news, Eli falls backward from his seat and breaks his neck at ninety-eight. Phinehas's wife, in labor when the news arrives, gives birth and names the child Ichabod, no glory, saying the glory has departed from Israel.
But the Philistines discover that keeping the ark is not the same as keeping YHWH. In Ashdod the statue of Dagon falls before the ark. Then falls again, this time with its head and hands broken off, leaving only the trunk, the posture of a helpless, armless god prostrating before the ark of Israel's God. Tumors break out across the city. The ark is moved city to city and disease follows. After seven months the Philistines send it back on a cart pulled by two milk cows, who head straight to Beth-shemesh without deviation, lowing as they go.
Thread 2 is the ark itself, the throne of the covenant God, being treated as a military asset and failing, because the covenant community's relationship with the God who sits enthroned there has broken down. Thread 5 is the dispensational diagnosis: the Mosaic administration is failing not because the law is wrong but because the hearts of the people are unchanged.
Ichabod, the glory has departed. The ark of the covenant captured by the Philistines is the OT's first major Shekinah-crisis before Ezekiel; and the Philistines discover that you cannot keep the ark without the God who inhabits it.
גָלָה כָבוֹד מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל (galah kavod mi-Yisrael): the glory has departed from Israel: galah kavod (the glory has gone into exile, galah is the exile word; the same verb used for the deportation of captive populations; the kavod has been exiled from Israel just as Israel will later be exiled from the land; Phinehas's wife names the child Ichabod, i-kavod, no glory, the glory is gone)
threads t2 · t5 · see 1 Samuel 6:1-16 · Psalm 78:60-61 · Ezekiel 10:18-19
Israel goes to war against the Philistines and loses badly, 4,000 dead. The elders decide to bring the ark of the covenant from Shiloh, thinking it will give them victory as it gave Joshua victory at Jericho. But the ark is not a talisman. It is the throne of the holy God who will not be manipulated into battle by those who have abandoned his covenant.
The second battle is worse: 30,000 infantry dead, including Hophni and Phinehas. The ark is captured. When the messenger reaches Shiloh with the news, Eli falls backward from his seat and breaks his neck at ninety-eight. Phinehas's wife, in labor when the news arrives, gives birth and names the child Ichabod, no glory, saying the glory has departed from Israel.
But the Philistines discover that keeping the ark is not the same as keeping YHWH. In Ashdod the statue of Dagon falls before the ark. Then falls again, this time with its head and hands broken off, leaving only the trunk, the posture of a helpless, armless god prostrating before the ark of Israel's God. Tumors break out across the city. The ark is moved city to city and disease follows. After seven months the Philistines send it back on a cart pulled by two milk cows, who head straight to Beth-shemesh without deviation, lowing as they go.
Thread 2 is the ark itself, the throne of the covenant God, being treated as a military asset and failing, because the covenant community's relationship with the God who sits enthroned there has broken down. Thread 5 is the dispensational diagnosis: the Mosaic administration is failing not because the law is wrong but because the hearts of the people are unchanged.
Ichabod, the glory has departed. The ark of the covenant captured by the Philistines is the OT's first major Shekinah-crisis before Ezekiel; and the Philistines discover that you cannot keep the ark without the God who inhabits it.
גָלָה כָבוֹד מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל (galah kavod mi-Yisrael): the glory has departed from Israel: galah kavod (the glory has gone into exile, galah is the exile word; the same verb used for the deportation of captive populations; the kavod has been exiled from Israel just as Israel will later be exiled from the land; Phinehas's wife names the child Ichabod, i-kavod, no glory, the glory is gone)
threads t2 · t5 · see 1 Samuel 6:1-16 · Psalm 78:60-61 · Ezekiel 10:18-19
Israel goes to war against the Philistines and loses badly, 4,000 dead. The elders decide to bring the ark of the covenant from Shiloh, thinking it will give them victory as it gave Joshua victory at Jericho. But the ark is not a talisman. It is the throne of the holy God who will not be manipulated into battle by those who have abandoned his covenant.
The second battle is worse: 30,000 infantry dead, including Hophni and Phinehas. The ark is captured. When the messenger reaches Shiloh with the news, Eli falls backward from his seat and breaks his neck at ninety-eight. Phinehas's wife, in labor when the news arrives, gives birth and names the child Ichabod, no glory, saying the glory has departed from Israel.
But the Philistines discover that keeping the ark is not the same as keeping YHWH. In Ashdod the statue of Dagon falls before the ark. Then falls again, this time with its head and hands broken off, leaving only the trunk, the posture of a helpless, armless god prostrating before the ark of Israel's God. Tumors break out across the city. The ark is moved city to city and disease follows. After seven months the Philistines send it back on a cart pulled by two milk cows, who head straight to Beth-shemesh without deviation, lowing as they go.
Thread 2 is the ark itself, the throne of the covenant God, being treated as a military asset and failing, because the covenant community's relationship with the God who sits enthroned there has broken down. Thread 5 is the dispensational diagnosis: the Mosaic administration is failing not because the law is wrong but because the hearts of the people are unchanged.
Ichabod, the glory has departed. The ark of the covenant captured by the Philistines is the OT's first major Shekinah-crisis before Ezekiel; and the Philistines discover that you cannot keep the ark without the God who inhabits it.
גָלָה כָבוֹד מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל (galah kavod mi-Yisrael): the glory has departed from Israel: galah kavod (the glory has gone into exile, galah is the exile word; the same verb used for the deportation of captive populations; the kavod has been exiled from Israel just as Israel will later be exiled from the land; Phinehas's wife names the child Ichabod, i-kavod, no glory, the glory is gone)
threads t2 · t5 · see 1 Samuel 6:1-16 · Psalm 78:60-61 · Ezekiel 10:18-19
Israel goes to war against the Philistines and loses badly, 4,000 dead. The elders decide to bring the ark of the covenant from Shiloh, thinking it will give them victory as it gave Joshua victory at Jericho. But the ark is not a talisman. It is the throne of the holy God who will not be manipulated into battle by those who have abandoned his covenant.
The second battle is worse: 30,000 infantry dead, including Hophni and Phinehas. The ark is captured. When the messenger reaches Shiloh with the news, Eli falls backward from his seat and breaks his neck at ninety-eight. Phinehas's wife, in labor when the news arrives, gives birth and names the child Ichabod, no glory, saying the glory has departed from Israel.
But the Philistines discover that keeping the ark is not the same as keeping YHWH. In Ashdod the statue of Dagon falls before the ark. Then falls again, this time with its head and hands broken off, leaving only the trunk, the posture of a helpless, armless god prostrating before the ark of Israel's God. Tumors break out across the city. The ark is moved city to city and disease follows. After seven months the Philistines send it back on a cart pulled by two milk cows, who head straight to Beth-shemesh without deviation, lowing as they go.
Thread 2 is the ark itself, the throne of the covenant God, being treated as a military asset and failing, because the covenant community's relationship with the God who sits enthroned there has broken down. Thread 5 is the dispensational diagnosis: the Mosaic administration is failing not because the law is wrong but because the hearts of the people are unchanged.
Ichabod, the glory has departed. The ark of the covenant captured by the Philistines is the OT's first major Shekinah-crisis before Ezekiel; and the Philistines discover that you cannot keep the ark without the God who inhabits it.
גָלָה כָבוֹד מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל (galah kavod mi-Yisrael): the glory has departed from Israel: galah kavod (the glory has gone into exile, galah is the exile word; the same verb used for the deportation of captive populations; the kavod has been exiled from Israel just as Israel will later be exiled from the land; Phinehas's wife names the child Ichabod, i-kavod, no glory, the glory is gone)
threads t2 · t5 · see 1 Samuel 6:1-16 · Psalm 78:60-61 · Ezekiel 10:18-19
Israel goes to war against the Philistines and loses badly, 4,000 dead. The elders decide to bring the ark of the covenant from Shiloh, thinking it will give them victory as it gave Joshua victory at Jericho. But the ark is not a talisman. It is the throne of the holy God who will not be manipulated into battle by those who have abandoned his covenant.
The second battle is worse: 30,000 infantry dead, including Hophni and Phinehas. The ark is captured. When the messenger reaches Shiloh with the news, Eli falls backward from his seat and breaks his neck at ninety-eight. Phinehas's wife, in labor when the news arrives, gives birth and names the child Ichabod, no glory, saying the glory has departed from Israel.
But the Philistines discover that keeping the ark is not the same as keeping YHWH. In Ashdod the statue of Dagon falls before the ark. Then falls again, this time with its head and hands broken off, leaving only the trunk, the posture of a helpless, armless god prostrating before the ark of Israel's God. Tumors break out across the city. The ark is moved city to city and disease follows. After seven months the Philistines send it back on a cart pulled by two milk cows, who head straight to Beth-shemesh without deviation, lowing as they go.
Thread 2 is the ark itself, the throne of the covenant God, being treated as a military asset and failing, because the covenant community's relationship with the God who sits enthroned there has broken down. Thread 5 is the dispensational diagnosis: the Mosaic administration is failing not because the law is wrong but because the hearts of the people are unchanged.
Ichabod, the glory has departed. The ark of the covenant captured by the Philistines is the OT's first major Shekinah-crisis before Ezekiel; and the Philistines discover that you cannot keep the ark without the God who inhabits it.
גָלָה כָבוֹד מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל (galah kavod mi-Yisrael): the glory has departed from Israel: galah kavod (the glory has gone into exile, galah is the exile word; the same verb used for the deportation of captive populations; the kavod has been exiled from Israel just as Israel will later be exiled from the land; Phinehas's wife names the child Ichabod, i-kavod, no glory, the glory is gone)
threads t2 · t5 · see 1 Samuel 6:1-16 · Psalm 78:60-61 · Ezekiel 10:18-19
Israel goes to war against the Philistines and loses badly, 4,000 dead. The elders decide to bring the ark of the covenant from Shiloh, thinking it will give them victory as it gave Joshua victory at Jericho. But the ark is not a talisman. It is the throne of the holy God who will not be manipulated into battle by those who have abandoned his covenant.
The second battle is worse: 30,000 infantry dead, including Hophni and Phinehas. The ark is captured. When the messenger reaches Shiloh with the news, Eli falls backward from his seat and breaks his neck at ninety-eight. Phinehas's wife, in labor when the news arrives, gives birth and names the child Ichabod, no glory, saying the glory has departed from Israel.
But the Philistines discover that keeping the ark is not the same as keeping YHWH. In Ashdod the statue of Dagon falls before the ark. Then falls again, this time with its head and hands broken off, leaving only the trunk, the posture of a helpless, armless god prostrating before the ark of Israel's God. Tumors break out across the city. The ark is moved city to city and disease follows. After seven months the Philistines send it back on a cart pulled by two milk cows, who head straight to Beth-shemesh without deviation, lowing as they go.
Thread 2 is the ark itself, the throne of the covenant God, being treated as a military asset and failing, because the covenant community's relationship with the God who sits enthroned there has broken down. Thread 5 is the dispensational diagnosis: the Mosaic administration is failing not because the law is wrong but because the hearts of the people are unchanged.
Ichabod, the glory has departed. The ark of the covenant captured by the Philistines is the OT's first major Shekinah-crisis before Ezekiel; and the Philistines discover that you cannot keep the ark without the God who inhabits it.
גָלָה כָבוֹד מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל (galah kavod mi-Yisrael): the glory has departed from Israel: galah kavod (the glory has gone into exile, galah is the exile word; the same verb used for the deportation of captive populations; the kavod has been exiled from Israel just as Israel will later be exiled from the land; Phinehas's wife names the child Ichabod, i-kavod, no glory, the glory is gone)
threads t2 · t5 · see 1 Samuel 6:1-16 · Psalm 78:60-61 · Ezekiel 10:18-19
Israel goes to war against the Philistines and loses badly, 4,000 dead. The elders decide to bring the ark of the covenant from Shiloh, thinking it will give them victory as it gave Joshua victory at Jericho. But the ark is not a talisman. It is the throne of the holy God who will not be manipulated into battle by those who have abandoned his covenant.
The second battle is worse: 30,000 infantry dead, including Hophni and Phinehas. The ark is captured. When the messenger reaches Shiloh with the news, Eli falls backward from his seat and breaks his neck at ninety-eight. Phinehas's wife, in labor when the news arrives, gives birth and names the child Ichabod, no glory, saying the glory has departed from Israel.
But the Philistines discover that keeping the ark is not the same as keeping YHWH. In Ashdod the statue of Dagon falls before the ark. Then falls again, this time with its head and hands broken off, leaving only the trunk, the posture of a helpless, armless god prostrating before the ark of Israel's God. Tumors break out across the city. The ark is moved city to city and disease follows. After seven months the Philistines send it back on a cart pulled by two milk cows, who head straight to Beth-shemesh without deviation, lowing as they go.
Thread 2 is the ark itself, the throne of the covenant God, being treated as a military asset and failing, because the covenant community's relationship with the God who sits enthroned there has broken down. Thread 5 is the dispensational diagnosis: the Mosaic administration is failing not because the law is wrong but because the hearts of the people are unchanged.
Ichabod, the glory has departed. The ark of the covenant captured by the Philistines is the OT's first major Shekinah-crisis before Ezekiel; and the Philistines discover that you cannot keep the ark without the God who inhabits it.
גָלָה כָבוֹד מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל (galah kavod mi-Yisrael): the glory has departed from Israel: galah kavod (the glory has gone into exile, galah is the exile word; the same verb used for the deportation of captive populations; the kavod has been exiled from Israel just as Israel will later be exiled from the land; Phinehas's wife names the child Ichabod, i-kavod, no glory, the glory is gone)
threads t2 · t5 · see 1 Samuel 6:1-16 · Psalm 78:60-61 · Ezekiel 10:18-19
Israel goes to war against the Philistines and loses badly, 4,000 dead. The elders decide to bring the ark of the covenant from Shiloh, thinking it will give them victory as it gave Joshua victory at Jericho. But the ark is not a talisman. It is the throne of the holy God who will not be manipulated into battle by those who have abandoned his covenant.
The second battle is worse: 30,000 infantry dead, including Hophni and Phinehas. The ark is captured. When the messenger reaches Shiloh with the news, Eli falls backward from his seat and breaks his neck at ninety-eight. Phinehas's wife, in labor when the news arrives, gives birth and names the child Ichabod, no glory, saying the glory has departed from Israel.
But the Philistines discover that keeping the ark is not the same as keeping YHWH. In Ashdod the statue of Dagon falls before the ark. Then falls again, this time with its head and hands broken off, leaving only the trunk, the posture of a helpless, armless god prostrating before the ark of Israel's God. Tumors break out across the city. The ark is moved city to city and disease follows. After seven months the Philistines send it back on a cart pulled by two milk cows, who head straight to Beth-shemesh without deviation, lowing as they go.
Thread 2 is the ark itself, the throne of the covenant God, being treated as a military asset and failing, because the covenant community's relationship with the God who sits enthroned there has broken down. Thread 5 is the dispensational diagnosis: the Mosaic administration is failing not because the law is wrong but because the hearts of the people are unchanged.
Ichabod, the glory has departed. The ark of the covenant captured by the Philistines is the OT's first major Shekinah-crisis before Ezekiel; and the Philistines discover that you cannot keep the ark without the God who inhabits it.
גָלָה כָבוֹד מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל (galah kavod mi-Yisrael): the glory has departed from Israel: galah kavod (the glory has gone into exile, galah is the exile word; the same verb used for the deportation of captive populations; the kavod has been exiled from Israel just as Israel will later be exiled from the land; Phinehas's wife names the child Ichabod, i-kavod, no glory, the glory is gone)
threads t2 · t5 · see 1 Samuel 6:1-16 · Psalm 78:60-61 · Ezekiel 10:18-19
Israel goes to war against the Philistines and loses badly, 4,000 dead. The elders decide to bring the ark of the covenant from Shiloh, thinking it will give them victory as it gave Joshua victory at Jericho. But the ark is not a talisman. It is the throne of the holy God who will not be manipulated into battle by those who have abandoned his covenant.
The second battle is worse: 30,000 infantry dead, including Hophni and Phinehas. The ark is captured. When the messenger reaches Shiloh with the news, Eli falls backward from his seat and breaks his neck at ninety-eight. Phinehas's wife, in labor when the news arrives, gives birth and names the child Ichabod, no glory, saying the glory has departed from Israel.
But the Philistines discover that keeping the ark is not the same as keeping YHWH. In Ashdod the statue of Dagon falls before the ark. Then falls again, this time with its head and hands broken off, leaving only the trunk, the posture of a helpless, armless god prostrating before the ark of Israel's God. Tumors break out across the city. The ark is moved city to city and disease follows. After seven months the Philistines send it back on a cart pulled by two milk cows, who head straight to Beth-shemesh without deviation, lowing as they go.
Thread 2 is the ark itself, the throne of the covenant God, being treated as a military asset and failing, because the covenant community's relationship with the God who sits enthroned there has broken down. Thread 5 is the dispensational diagnosis: the Mosaic administration is failing not because the law is wrong but because the hearts of the people are unchanged.
Ichabod, the glory has departed. The ark of the covenant captured by the Philistines is the OT's first major Shekinah-crisis before Ezekiel; and the Philistines discover that you cannot keep the ark without the God who inhabits it.
גָלָה כָבוֹד מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל (galah kavod mi-Yisrael): the glory has departed from Israel: galah kavod (the glory has gone into exile, galah is the exile word; the same verb used for the deportation of captive populations; the kavod has been exiled from Israel just as Israel will later be exiled from the land; Phinehas's wife names the child Ichabod, i-kavod, no glory, the glory is gone)
threads t2 · t5 · see 1 Samuel 6:1-16 · Psalm 78:60-61 · Ezekiel 10:18-19
Israel goes to war against the Philistines and loses badly, 4,000 dead. The elders decide to bring the ark of the covenant from Shiloh, thinking it will give them victory as it gave Joshua victory at Jericho. But the ark is not a talisman. It is the throne of the holy God who will not be manipulated into battle by those who have abandoned his covenant.
The second battle is worse: 30,000 infantry dead, including Hophni and Phinehas. The ark is captured. When the messenger reaches Shiloh with the news, Eli falls backward from his seat and breaks his neck at ninety-eight. Phinehas's wife, in labor when the news arrives, gives birth and names the child Ichabod, no glory, saying the glory has departed from Israel.
But the Philistines discover that keeping the ark is not the same as keeping YHWH. In Ashdod the statue of Dagon falls before the ark. Then falls again, this time with its head and hands broken off, leaving only the trunk, the posture of a helpless, armless god prostrating before the ark of Israel's God. Tumors break out across the city. The ark is moved city to city and disease follows. After seven months the Philistines send it back on a cart pulled by two milk cows, who head straight to Beth-shemesh without deviation, lowing as they go.
Thread 2 is the ark itself, the throne of the covenant God, being treated as a military asset and failing, because the covenant community's relationship with the God who sits enthroned there has broken down. Thread 5 is the dispensational diagnosis: the Mosaic administration is failing not because the law is wrong but because the hearts of the people are unchanged.
Ichabod, the glory has departed. The ark of the covenant captured by the Philistines is the OT's first major Shekinah-crisis before Ezekiel; and the Philistines discover that you cannot keep the ark without the God who inhabits it.
גָלָה כָבוֹד מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל (galah kavod mi-Yisrael): the glory has departed from Israel: galah kavod (the glory has gone into exile, galah is the exile word; the same verb used for the deportation of captive populations; the kavod has been exiled from Israel just as Israel will later be exiled from the land; Phinehas's wife names the child Ichabod, i-kavod, no glory, the glory is gone)
threads t2 · t5 · see 1 Samuel 6:1-16 · Psalm 78:60-61 · Ezekiel 10:18-19
Israel goes to war against the Philistines and loses badly, 4,000 dead. The elders decide to bring the ark of the covenant from Shiloh, thinking it will give them victory as it gave Joshua victory at Jericho. But the ark is not a talisman. It is the throne of the holy God who will not be manipulated into battle by those who have abandoned his covenant.
The second battle is worse: 30,000 infantry dead, including Hophni and Phinehas. The ark is captured. When the messenger reaches Shiloh with the news, Eli falls backward from his seat and breaks his neck at ninety-eight. Phinehas's wife, in labor when the news arrives, gives birth and names the child Ichabod, no glory, saying the glory has departed from Israel.
But the Philistines discover that keeping the ark is not the same as keeping YHWH. In Ashdod the statue of Dagon falls before the ark. Then falls again, this time with its head and hands broken off, leaving only the trunk, the posture of a helpless, armless god prostrating before the ark of Israel's God. Tumors break out across the city. The ark is moved city to city and disease follows. After seven months the Philistines send it back on a cart pulled by two milk cows, who head straight to Beth-shemesh without deviation, lowing as they go.
Thread 2 is the ark itself, the throne of the covenant God, being treated as a military asset and failing, because the covenant community's relationship with the God who sits enthroned there has broken down. Thread 5 is the dispensational diagnosis: the Mosaic administration is failing not because the law is wrong but because the hearts of the people are unchanged.
Ichabod, the glory has departed. The ark of the covenant captured by the Philistines is the OT's first major Shekinah-crisis before Ezekiel; and the Philistines discover that you cannot keep the ark without the God who inhabits it.
גָלָה כָבוֹד מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל (galah kavod mi-Yisrael): the glory has departed from Israel: galah kavod (the glory has gone into exile, galah is the exile word; the same verb used for the deportation of captive populations; the kavod has been exiled from Israel just as Israel will later be exiled from the land; Phinehas's wife names the child Ichabod, i-kavod, no glory, the glory is gone)
threads t2 · t5 · see 1 Samuel 6:1-16 · Psalm 78:60-61 · Ezekiel 10:18-19
