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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities,
and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they
set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the
field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.
SA1 6:19 And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked
into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and
threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had
smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
SA1 6:20 And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before
this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
SA1 6:21 And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim,
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