This is true. I found out about the Philistines being ancestors of todays
Palestines by wickopediaing the Philistines on the Internet.
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Most importantly, one must remember that there was never a nation
called "Palestine," and that the so-called "Palestinians" have no right to
live there.
David
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> The Philistines in the Bible are ancestors of todays Palestinians of the
> Gaza Strip. Eli was Blind.
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> >>1 Samuel 4-6 (The Message)
> >>
> >> 1 Samuel 4
> >>
> >> The Chest of God Is Taken
> >> 1-3Whatever Samuel said was broadcast all through Israel. Israel went to
> >> war against the
> >> Philistines. Israel set up camp at Ebenezer, the Philistines at
> >> Aphek. The Philistines marched out to meet Israel, the fighting spread,
> >> and Israel was badly
> >> beaten-about four thousand soldiers left dead on the field.
> >> When the troops returned to camp, Israel's elders said, "Why has God
> >> given
> >> us such a beating today
> >> by the Philistines? Let's go to Shiloh and get the Chest
> >> of God's Covenant. It will accompany us and save us from the grip of our
> >> enemies."
> >>
> >> 4 So the army sent orders to Shiloh. They brought the Chest of the
> >> Covenant of God, the
> >> God-of-the-Angel-Armies, the Cherubim-Enthroned-God. Eli's two
> >> sons, Hophni and Phinehas, accompanied the Chest of the Covenant of God.
> >>
> >> 5-6 When the Chest of the Covenant of God was brought into camp, everyone
> >> gave a huge cheer. The
> >> shouts were like thunderclaps shaking the very ground.
> >> The Philistines heard the shouting and wondered what on earth was going
> >> on: "What's all this
> >> shouting among the Hebrews?"
> >>
> >> 6-9 Then they learned that the Chest of God had entered the Hebrew camp.
> >> The Philistines panicked:
> >> "Their gods have come to their camp! Nothing like this
> >> has ever happened before. We're done for! Who can save us from the
> >> clutches of these supergods?
> >> These are the same gods who hit the Egyptians with all
> >> kinds of plagues out in the wilderness. On your feet, Philistines!
> >> Courage! We're about to become
> >> slaves to the Hebrews, just as they have been slaves
> >> to us. Show what you're made of! Fight for your lives!"
> >>
> >> 10-11 And did they ever fight! It turned into a rout. They thrashed
> >> Israel
> >> so mercilessly that the
> >> Israelite soldiers ran for their lives, leaving behind
> >> an incredible thirty thousand dead. As if that wasn't bad enough, the
> >> Chest of God was taken and the
> >> two sons of Eli-Hophni and Phinehas-were killed.
> >>
> >> Glory Is Exiled from Israel
> >> 12-16 Immediately, a Benjaminite raced from the front lines back to
> >> Shiloh. Shirt torn and face
> >> smeared with dirt, he entered the town. Eli was sitting
> >> on his stool beside the road keeping vigil, for he was extremely worried
> >> about the Chest of God.
> >> When the man ran straight into town to tell the bad news,
> >> everyone wept. They were appalled. Eli heard the loud wailing and asked,
> >> "Why this uproar?" The
> >> messenger hurried over and reported. Eli was ninety-eight
> >> years old then, and blind. The man said to Eli, "I've just come from the
> >> front, barely escaping with
> >> my life."
> >>
> >> "And so, my son," said Eli, "what happened?"
> >>
> >> 17 The messenger answered, "Israel scattered before the Philistines. The
> >> defeat was catastrophic,
> >> with enormous losses. Your sons Hophni and Phinehas died,
> >> and the Chest of God was taken."
> >>
> >> 18 At the words, "Chest of God," Eli fell backward off his stool where he
> >> sat next to the gate. Eli
> >> was an old man, and very fat. When he fell, he broke
> >> his neck and died. He had led Israel forty years.
> >>
> >> 19-20 His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and ready
> >> to
> >> deliver. When she heard
> >> that the Chest of God had been taken and that both her
> >> father-in-law and her husband were dead, she went to her knees to give
> >> birth, going into hard labor.
> >> As she was about to die, her midwife said, "Don't
> >> be afraid. You've given birth to a son!" But she gave no sign that she
> >> had
> >> heard.
> >>
> >> 21-22 The Chest of God gone, father-in-law dead, husband dead, she named
> >> the boy Ichabod
> >> (Glory's-Gone), saying, "Glory is exiled from Israel since the
> >> Chest of God was taken."
> >>
> >> 1 Samuel 5
> >>
> >> Threatened with Mass Death
> >> 1-2 Once the Philistines had seized the Chest of God, they took it from
> >> Ebenezer to Ashdod, brought
> >> it into the shrine of Dagon, and placed it alongside
> >> the idol of Dagon.
> >>
> >> 3-5 Next morning when the citizens of Ashdod got up, they were shocked to
> >> find Dagon toppled from
> >> his place, flat on his face before the Chest of God.
> >> They picked him up and put him back where he belonged. First thing the
> >> next morning they found him
> >> again, toppled and flat on his face before the Chest
> >> of God. Dagon's head and arms were broken off, strewn across the
> >> entrance.
> >> Only his torso was in one
> >> piece. (That's why even today, the priests of Dagon
> >> and visitors to the Dagon shrine in Ashdod avoid stepping on the
> >> threshold.)
> >>
> >> 6 God was hard on the citizens of Ashdod. He devastated them by hitting
> >> them with tumors. This
> >> happened in both the town and the surrounding neighborhoods.
> >> He let loose rats among them. Jumping from ships there, rats swarmed all
> >> over the city! And everyone
> >> was deathly afraid.
> >>
> >> 7-8 When the leaders of Ashdod saw what was going on, they decided, "The
> >> chest of the god of Israel
> >> has got to go. We can't handle this, and neither can
> >> our god Dagon." They called together all the Philistine leaders and put
> >> it
> >> to them: "How can we get
> >> rid of the chest of the god of Israel?"
> >>
> >> The leaders agreed: "Move it to Gath." So they moved the Chest of the
> >> God of Israel to Gath.
> >>
> >> 9 But as soon as they moved it there, God came down hard on that city,
> >> too. It was mass hysteria!
> >> He hit them with tumors. Tumors broke out on everyone
> >> in town, young and old.
> >>
> >> 10-12 So they sent the Chest of God on to Ekron, but as the Chest was
> >> being brought into town, the
> >> people shouted in protest, "You'll kill us all by bringing
> >> in this Chest of the God of Israel!" They called the Philistine leaders
> >> together and demanded, "Get
> >> it out of here, this Chest of the God of Israel. Send
> >> it back where it came from. We're threatened with mass death!" For
> >> everyone was scared to death when
> >> the Chest of God showed up. God was already coming
> >> down very hard on the place. Those who didn't die were hit with tumors.
> >> All over the city cries of
> >> pain and lament filled the air.
> >>
> >> 1 Samuel 6
> >>
> >> Gold Tumors and Rats
> >> 1-2 After the Chest of God had been among the Philistine people for seven
> >> months, the Philistine
> >> leaders called together their religious professionals,
> >> the priests, and experts on the supernatural for consultation: "How can
> >> we
> >> get rid of this Chest of
> >> God, get it off our hands without making things worse?
> >> Tell us!"
> >>
> >> 3 They said, "If you're going to send the Chest of the God of Israel
> >> back,
> >> don't just dump it on
> >> them. Pay compensation. Then you will be healed. After
> >> you're in the clear again, God will let up on you. Why wouldn't he?"
> >>
> >> 4-6 "And what exactly would make for adequate compensation?"
> >>
> >> "Five gold tumors and five gold rats," they said, "to match the number
> >> of Philistine leaders.
> >> Since all of you-leaders and people-suffered the same
> >> plague, make replicas of the tumors and rats that are devastating the
> >> country and present them as an
> >> offering to the glory of the God of Israel. Then maybe
> >> he'll ease up and not be so hard on you and your gods, and on your
> >> country. Why be stubborn like the
> >> Egyptians and Pharaoh? God didn't quit pounding on
> >> them until they let the people go. Only then did he let up.
> >>
> >> 7-9 "So here's what you do: Take a brand-new oxcart and two cows that
> >> have
> >> never been in harness.
> >> Hitch the cows to the oxcart and send their calves back
> >> to the barn. Put the Chest of God on the cart. Secure the gold replicas
> >> of
> >> the tumors and rats that
> >> you are offering as compensation in a sack and set
> >> them next to the Chest. Then send it off. But keep your eyes on it. If it
> >> heads straight back home
> >> to where it came from, toward Beth Shemesh, it is clear
> >> that this catastrophe is a divine judgment, but if not, we'll know that
> >> God had nothing to do with
> >> it-it was just an accident."
> >>
> >> 10-12 So that's what they did: They hitched two cows to the cart, put
> >> their calves in the barn, and
> >> placed the Chest of God and the sack of gold rats and
> >> tumors on the cart. The cows headed straight for home, down the road to
> >> Beth Shemesh, straying
> >> neither right nor left, mooing all the way. The Philistine
> >> leaders followed them to the outskirts of Beth Shemesh.
> >>
> >> 13-15 The people of Beth Shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley.
> >> They
> >> looked up and saw the
> >> Chest. Jubilant, they ran to meet it. The cart came into
> >> the field of Joshua, a Beth Shemeshite, and stopped there beside a huge
> >> boulder. The harvesters tore
> >> the cart to pieces, then chopped up the wood and sacrificed
> >> the cows as a burnt offering to God. The Levites took charge of the Chest
> >> of God and the sack
> >> containing the gold offerings, placing them on the boulder.
> >> Offering the sacrifices, everyone in Beth Shemesh worshiped God most
> >> heartily that day.
> >>
> >> 16 When the five Philistine leaders saw what they came to see, they
> >> returned the same day to Ekron.
> >>
> >> 17-18 The five gold replicas of the tumors were offered by the
> >> Philistines
> >> in compensation for the
> >> cities of Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron. The
> >> five gold rats matched the number of Philistine towns, both large and
> >> small, ruled by the five
> >> leaders. The big boulder on which they placed the Chest
> >> of God is still there in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, a landmark.
> >>
> >> If You Are Serious About Coming Back to God
> >> 19-20 God struck some of the men of Beth Shemesh who, out of curiosity,
> >> irreverently peeked into the
> >> Chest of God. Seventy died. The whole town was in mourning,
> >> reeling under the hard blow from God, and questioning, "Who can stand
> >> before God, this holy God? And
> >> who can we get to take this Chest off our hands?"
> >>
> >> 21 They sent emissaries to Kiriath Jearim, saying, "The Philistines have
> >> returned the Chest of God.
> >> Come down and get it."
> >>
> >>
> >> Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning
> >> Skype Prayer Time.
> >>
> >>
> >> Contact Me At:
> >> Donnie Parrett
> >> 1956 Asa Flat Road
> >> Annville, Kentucky 40402
> >> Home Phone: 606-364-3321
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> >> Email: [email protected]
> >>
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