Send it not empty - See the marginal references. The pagan idea of appeasing the gods with gifts, and the scriptural idea of expressing peni…

Send it not empty. —The advice was to propitiate with gifts the powerful Hebrew Deity, whom they imagined was offended and angry a…

And they said, if you send away the ark of the God of Israel,
send it not empty
As 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…