Why do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh did?

! Samuel 6:1-12

They answered, “If you return the ark of the god of Israel, do not send it back to him without a gift; by all means send a guilt offering to him. Then you will be healed, and you will know why his hand has not been lifted from you.”

They replied, “Five gold tumors and five gold rats, according to the number of the Philistine rulers, because the same plague has struck both you and your rulers. Make models of the tumors and of the rats that are destroying the country, and give glory to Israel’s god. Perhaps he will lift his hand from you and your gods and your land. Why do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When Israel’s god dealt harshly with them, did they not send the Israelites out so they could go on their way?

Now then, get a new cart ready, with two cows that have calved and have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up. Take the ark of the Lord and put it on the cart, and in a chest beside it put the gold objects you are sending back to him as a guilt offering. Send it on its way, but keep watching it. If it goes up to its own territory, toward Beth Shemesh, then the Lord has brought this great disaster on us. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us but that it happened to us by chance.”

Then the cows went straight up toward Beth Shemesh, keeping on the road and lowing all the way; they did not turn to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed them as far as the border of Beth Shemesh.

Why?

People of Philistin proved that their diseases and disaster were caused by the Lord by the two cows straight up toward Beth Shemesh, the territory of Isreal.

The priests and the diviners gave the leader of Philistin a good suggestion, let the Ark of the Lord return to Israel with honor.

Who can bear the punishment of the Lord? No one. Actually, the Philistines did not know the consequence of keeping the Ark of the Lord as their property.

How?

Our God is full of love and righteousness. my God gives good to us and punishes us when we do wrong.