Genesis 16

Genesis 16

Impatient with God's timing, Abram and his wife Sarai decide to take matters into their own hands to secure an heir. Sarai gives her Egyptian servant, Hagar, to Abram. When Hagar conceives, she begins to despise Sarai, who then treats her harshly, forcing Hagar to flee to the wilderness. An angel of the Lord appears to Hagar, promising that her son, Ishmael, will be a wild man and the father of a multitude. Hagar returns and gives birth to Ishmael when Abram is eighty-six years old.

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1 Samuel 5

The Philistines place the captured Ark in the temple of their god Dagon. Dagon's idol falls over and is broken. Plagues and tumors afflict the cities where the Ark is kept, terrifying the Philistines.

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The terrified Philistines return the Ark to Israel on a new cart pulled by two cows. The people of Beth Shemesh rejoice, but God strikes down 70 men who looked irreverently inside the Ark.

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