The Glory, the Priest, and the Pirates (part 2)
Holy Ghost Stories
Justin Gerhardt
4.9 • 553 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The Philistines soon discover the Ark of the Covenant is not to be trifled with.
Text: 1 Samuel 5:1-7:14
Players:
- Yahweh
- The Philistines
- Samuel
- The Ark of the Covenant
What's Spooky:
- Rats and tumors
Credits:
Research, Writing, Narration, Sound Editing: Justin Gerhardt
Manuscript Editing: JL Gerhardt
Production: Hazefire Studios
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Is He greater than all other gods? |
| 0:07.0 | For many people, across many generations, this has not been a rhetorical question. |
| 0:14.0 | Men and women of old, wise enough to know the world as enchanted, |
| 0:19.0 | wrestled often with the identity of who exactly |
| 0:23.2 | might be the source of that enchantment, and whether his name, indeed, was Yahweh. |
| 0:32.2 | This is the story of a journey of reverence, an evolution of awareness concerning the might and power of the one |
| 0:40.7 | who made a covenant with Israel. It's a story about consequences and lessons learned. And it's a story |
| 0:49.8 | about Yahweh, who is God above all gods, even the idol we might be tempted to make of him. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm Justin Gerhardt. Welcome to Holy Ghost Stories. You know, No one's ever seen the back of his head. |
| 1:35.3 | Dagon, mighty god of the Philistines, is on his face before the ark of the God of Israel. |
| 1:47.2 | It looks like he's bowing. |
| 1:51.3 | Gasp and murmurs abound. |
| 1:56.4 | Workers passing the temple on their way to the fields and women on their way to the market and old men who left their board games when they saw the gathering crowd, every 30 seconds brings |
| 2:02.9 | a dozen more passers by. |
| 2:05.5 | No, it was like this when I came. |
| 2:08.9 | Someone said it must have happened in the night. |
| 2:12.1 | What does it mean? |
| 2:14.3 | But no one wants to answer that question. |
| 2:18.6 | Around the open-air temple, |
| 2:21.0 | atop an array of ten-foot skewers, |
| 2:23.7 | the severed heads and hands of Israelite captains. |
| 2:28.2 | Collected after the slaughter at Ebenezer |
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