The Holy Land and the Bible; . itwrought woe in tbe land. Once more the cr\^ arose to send it oft, butthis time cows, instead of oxen, were yoked to the cart which bore it,and their calves kept at home, that tbe will of the Philistine godsrespecting it might be judged from tbe action of the dumb creaturesthat were to bear it away. If tbe milky mothers turned back to theircalves, it would be a sign that the ark was yet to stay in the Philis-tine plain; if tbey kept on their way up into the bills to the land oftbe H^ -ews, it would be a proof that the gods wished it to be restoredto people. But
The Holy Land and the Bible; . itwrought woe in tbe land. Once more the cr\^ arose to send it oft, butthis time cows, instead of oxen, were yoked to the cart which bore it,and their calves kept at home, that tbe will of the Philistine godsrespecting it might be judged from tbe action of the dumb creaturesthat were to bear it away. If tbe milky mothers turned back to theircalves, it would be a sign that the ark was yet to stay in the Philis-tine plain; if tbey kept on their way up into the bills to the land oftbe H^ -ews, it would be a proof that the gods wished it to be restoredto people. But tbe kine went straight soutb from Ekron, low- r calves as they Avent, yet never turning from their steadyT tbe road to tbe great Wady Surar—the valley of Elab,• to the Hebrew country in the mountains—never stop-ad dragged their awful burden far up to the roundedve tbe sea, on which stands Betbshemesh, distant atom Ekron.•=. mice and emerods by w^bich the Philistines hadth the ark by the sufierers as votive offerings to. He cuttPth out rivers among thevoc\iii.—Job. xxviii. 10. lie turneth rivers into a wilder-ness, and the wnter-sprinj^s into drj-ground.— evil. 33. Thou diilst the earth witlirivers.—Ilab. iii. 9. ALLUVIAL DEPOSITS IN WaDY FEIRAN. (See page 81 Vl] ASHDOD—MAJDEL. 87 propitiate the Hebrew God wIkjih they had oftended, are the first ofthe kind recorded. Other ancient nations, however, were in the habitof hanging up in the temples of tlieir gods small images of diseasedj)arts of the body which had been healed, in answer to prayer as theyIjelieved, and also small models of whatever had caused them dangeror sutVering, now averted bv the same heavenly aid : a })ractice stillobserved in Greek and Koman Catholic churches where silver modelsof eves, arms, or legs indicate cures supposed to have been effected bythe intercession of particular saints, and small models of ships showdeliverance from peril at sea.^ That the Hebrews hung up the votive
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