In a coffer by the side thereof. —The reverent awe with which these Philistines treated the Ark, which had, they supposed…

And take the ark of the Lord, and lay it upon the cart
Which was dispensed with in these uncircumcised Philistines, …

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…