And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.
When the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day. 'Afar this transaction,' says Dr. Warburton ('Divine Legation,' b. 1:, sec. 2), 'we hear no more of any attempts among the Gentile nations to join the Jewish worship with their own. They considered the God of Israel as a tutelary Deity, absolutely unsociable, who would have nothing to do with any but His own people, or with such, particularly, as would worship Him alone, and therefore, in this respect, different from all other tutelary gods, each of which was willing to live in community with the rest.'