Went along the highway, lowing. — But the dumb beasts did what the idol priests and diviners scarcely considered possible, for God’s hand drove them. The narrative here throughout is evidently unadorned, very easy and natural, and speaks of primitive customs, telling its story of the Divine interference of the “Glorious Arm” with exquisite simplicity and truth.
The dumb beasts went on their strange way with their golden burden, the princes of the Philistines following them, awe-struck, at a distance.