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164 GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE ENTER THE PROMISED LAND
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© 1931, BY BENZIGER BROTHERS
THE JOURNEYS OF THE ARK AMONG THE PHILISTINES
recovered from their fright and, attacking the Israel­ ites, they defeated them again. The two sons of Heli were slain in this battle and the Ark of the Covenant was captured by-the Philistines. This news was brought to Heli, now old and blind. When he heard it, he fell from his chair, and died. The two sons were killed for their crimes and the father died in punish­ ment for his failure to correct them.
The Philistines took the Ark of the Covenant to the Azotus, one of their cities near the sea. They placed
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Ark. They set it up again, but the next morning it was again found on the ground, with the head and hands of the idol broken o . The city was stricken with a
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