Jim Gallagher

Numbers 7:9
“But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because theirs was the service of the holy things, which they carried on their shoulders.”

About 600 years after these events, somebody got it into his head that it would be a great idea to take the Ark of the Covenant into battle. He had lost sight of who God was, and thought the Ark of the Covenant was the presence of God. So, seizing the Ark, the army marched into battle, assuming it would ensure victory. They were defeated. The Philistines captured the Ark and took it into their camp. As a result, God began to plague the Philistines, so they put the Ark on a cart, hitched to oxen, and sent the cart back to the nation of Israel, where it remained in the house of Abinadab until the time of David.

Later in I Chronicles 13…