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b'When Israel went to battle against the Philistines they assumed that they could bring out the ark of the covenant to the battlefield, and that it\\u2019s presence would either oblige God to win the battle for them or that the object itself had some kind of mystical power. They were sorely mistaken, and the Philistines promptly defeated them captured the ark. Assuming that their victory is a victory over Israel\\u2019s God, the Philistines place the ark in Dagon\\u2019s temple. Time and again, however, the Lord silently causes destruction, catastrophe and misery for the Philistines wherever the ark is taken, until finally, they become so desperate they put it on a cart and send it back where it came from.'