Our text is the record of that time when God proved victorious over the Philistines. The Philistines sought to imprison the Ark of God as a testimony of their superiority over Yahweh. And yet here, the Philistines cry “Uncle!” readily admitting that God alone is great! In fact, notice the counsel of the Philistine priests in 1 Samuel 6:5, “and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel [this is something Eli, his sons, and Israel refused to do]: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
In line with the pun that has been running throughout the opening chapters of 1 Samuel, the Philistines have been brought to the point where they are giving God glory/weight in the hopes that He will lighten His hand of judgment.
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