"Let us bring the Ark . . . that when it comes among us it may save us" After a first clash in which Israel lost to the Philippines, suffering 4,000 casualties, the enders sent to Shiloh for the Ark and its two attendants, Hophni and Phinehas (v 1b-4). Though struck with fear by the arrival of the Ark, the Philistines rallied and won the second killing about 30,00 infantry, plus Hophni and Phinehas, and capturing the Ark (vv 5-11) |