Hey, this is Shelby and CJ. We're in the book of First Samuel, four through six. So yesterday,

we were talking about kind of some shifts that were taking place. So Eli is the priest and his

sons, you know, they've been judged. They're now gone. But Samuel is here,

and we see that he's kind of been named as a prophet. He seems to be kind of a central figure

that the Lord is going to work through. So kind of help us shape here. What's happening in chapters

four through six that builds on this? Yeah, so here we see the Philistines are still around. We kind of help us shape here. What's happening in chapters four through six that builds on this?

Yeah, so here we see the Philistines are still around. We kind of met them. We've met them all over,

but we saw them most recently in the book of judges in Samson. And the Philistines are still

bothering the Israelites. And instead of praying to God about their enemy, instead of supplicating

to the Lord, they bring out the ark into battle, thinking that as a consequence of them possessing the ark, that somehow that will motivate or convince or entice God to fight on their behalf.

So they almost use it as like a talisman or like an idol.

But what happens is the Israelites lose the battle and the ark gets stolen. And then someone comes back to tell Eli that,

yeah, your sons have been judged. They died in battle. And then Eli falls backwards himself and

dies. What happens to the ark then at that point? Right. So then the Philistines take the ark. They put the

ark in their god's temple. And each night, or for a few nights, they recognize that somehow

the statue of their god has been messed with somehow. And they recognize that it's because they have the ark.

So they try to move the ark around to a bunch of different places, but these sores or boils

or ulcers spread with the ark wherever it goes so that it ends up infecting the whole,

you know, the whole population of the Philistines.

And eventually they, they send some golden mice or some golden sores along with the ark back to Israel. And I think they're supposed to symbolize like, hey, God, you gave us so

we're going to send you something in return, like in like measure. So hey, we're sorry about that.

Kind of like an

...