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The box is captured and taken to Ashdod and Gath. It acts with nobody operating it.
In plain words
The Philistines capture the Ark and carry it to Ashdod and Gath, and the text says the LORD's hand struck each city with no priest or Israelite near. The box keeps its own specification in the hands of its looters; that device reading is labelled speculation.
The mechanism
THE DEVICE PAYS OFF ITS OWN SPEC — no priest attends it, no Israelite is near it, and it works in the hands of the men who took it as loot
Scripture
1 Samuel 5
How it was checked
- EvidenceT3 SCRIPTURE; Status: COMMITTED
- Letter eraTHE LINE HELD THROUGH HELL Abraham to Solomon, c. 2000 to c. 930 BC
- Plate — James Tissot, "The idol broken down before the ark" (1 Samuel 5:4), pen and ink sketch, John Rylands Library · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tissot_Drawing_249_The_idol_broken_down_before_the_ark_1_Samuel_5_4_for_Brunoff_237_L%27idole_bris%C3%A9e_devant_l%27arche.jpg
- SourcesSCRIPTURE — 1 Samuel 5
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