The Philistines, their priests and diviners,
and the ark of the covenant of the Lord:
Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords. Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land. Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?-1 Samuel 6:4-6***
Miriam and her younger brothers Aaron and Moses were Israelites from the tribe of Levi, descended from Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai), Isaac and Rebekah,
Jacob (Israel) and his 1st wife Leah, and Jacob and Leah's 3rd born son Levi. When Moses was 80 years old and Aaron was 83, the Lord God sent them to speak to the Israelite elders and Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. After the Lord God brought the 10th and final plague upon Pharaoh and Egypt, Pharaoh told Moses and Aaron to get the Israelites and their animals and go serve the Lord God. Moreover, Pharaoh told Moses and Aaron to bless him. Before Moses and Aaron led the Israelites, and those with them, away from Egyptian slavery, across the divinely parted Red Sea, and into the desert wilderness of Shur, the Israelites asked for and were given an abundance of valuable goods, fulfilling the words that the Lord God spoke to Abraham over 600 years earlier. In the desert wilderness of Sinai, when Moses was upon Mount Sinai 40 days and nights with the Lord God, the Lord God commanded Moses to have every willing Israelite bring an offering, and the Lord God described to Moses and showed Moses the likeness of the tabernacle, and the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and other sacred items that the Israelites were to make. During the 40-year journey to Canaan, the Promised Land, Miriam the prophetess died and was buried in Kadesh, in the desert wilderness of Zin. Upon Mount Hor, 123-year-old Aaron the high priest died. When Moses went upon Mount Nebo, the Lord God showed Moses the Promised Land, and 120-year-old Moses the prophet died and was divinely buried. Joshua, Moses' aide and successor from the tribe of Ephraim, led the Israelites across the divinely parted Jordan River and onto the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham, and Isaac, and to Jacob, and their descendants. Approximately 300 years after 110-year-old Joshua died and was buried in his tribe's portion of the Promised Land, Eli, a descendant of Aaron and hiswife Elisheba, was the high priest. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that when Eli was old, and his sons Hophni and Phinehas were not obeying the commands of the Lord God, the Philistines came to battle the Israelites and won the 1st round. The Israelite elders asked why the Lord God allowed the defeat and the elders suggested that the ark of the covenant of the Lord be brought to their encampment to save them from the Philistines. After the ark of the covenant of the Lord was brought to the Israelites, and the Philistines heard the shouts of the Israelites, and knew that the ark of the covenant of the Lord was among the Israelites, the Philistines were frightened. However, the Philistines encouraged themselves, and defeated the Israelites, and took the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and killed Hophni and Phinehas. Eli was told that Hophni and Phinehas were dead, and Eli fell from his chair and his neck broke after hearing that the Philistines had taken the ark of the covenant of the Lord. Moreover, the wife of Phinehas gave birth to their son Ichabod and died. Over 1,000 years after the Philistines returned the ark of the covenant of the Lord to the Israelites, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Jacob and Leah's 4th born son Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin. -Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 13:1-14:45, 20:1-29, 27:12-12, Deuteronomy 31:1-34:12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 18:1-28, 1 Samuel, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 6:1-81, Matthew, Mark, Like, John, Acts 1:1-26
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emerods = tehore = ophel/aphal = tumors
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