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The Importance of the Ark of the Covenant
In 1 Samuel 4 when the Israelites are going to battle against the Philistines they trot out the arc of the covenant. And so it's doing the exact same thing that divine images prior to the exile and divine images in the nations around Israel did only in this transition we move away from standing stones We have the law and we have miniature standing stones with the law, then we have no standing stones and we just have the law but the law still has the divine name on it.