In a coffer by the side thereof. — The reverent awe with which these Philistines treated the Ark, which had, they supposed, wrought them such great evil, presents a strong contrast to the careless curiosity of the men of Beth-shemesh with regard to the same sacred object — a careless curiosity, which was punished, as we so often find in the case of acts of sacrilege, with extreme severity.
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1 Samuel 6:8
8 And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.