Welcome back to another week of “You can’t make this up”. This week is the first of a few that we will spend on this passage and the following chapter, as there is a bithere to unpack. There is a little bit of context that we need to add to this before we start digging into chapter 5, verse 1. A few chapters prior to this one is where God called Samuel in the night, while he was serving under Eli thehigh priest. God revealed to Samuel and Eli his displeasure with Eli’s sons and their behavior as fellow priests. God announced his punishment to the house ofEli as a result. In chapter 4, Eli’s sons took the Ark of the covenant into the encampment of the Israelites during their battles with the Philistines.  The Philistines had already beaten them once, so they called for the Ark to come from Shiloh. There was great rejoicing at the Israelite camp, the Philistines could even hear it, but they determined tostand up, fight, and not become slaves to the Israelites. The Philistines won the battle. 30,000 Israelites were killed, including Eli’s two sons. The rest of the Israelite army fled. One of those soldiers went back to Shiloh and gavea report to Eli, letting him know that his sons had been killed and that the Ark had been captured, Eli fell out of his seat, broke his neck and died, completing God’s declared judgement on the house of Eli. The Philistines now have the ark as a trophy ofbattle. They know it is connected to the God that the Israelites served, but it was not an idol like they worshipped. So there was a little bit of confusion as to what exactly to do with the Ark

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