It was a prevalent custom in pagan antiquity to make offerings to the gods that expressed the particular mercy received. For example, those saved f…

Five golden emerods, and five golden mice. —It was a general custom among ancient nations to offer to the deity to whom sickness o…

Then said they, what shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him ? &c.] They paid a great deference to th…

For seven months, the Philistines were punished with the presence of the ark; it was a plague to them for all that time because they would not send…