d-mouse is engraven, together with Apollo
Smintheus, or Apollo, the driver away of field-mice, on account of his
being supposed to have freed certain tracts of ground from those mice;
which coins show how great a judgment such mice have sometimes been, and
how the deliverance from them was then esteemed the effect of a divine
power; which observations are highly suitable to this history.

[3] This device of the Philistines, of having a yoke of kine to draw
this cart, into which they put the ark of the Hebrews, is greatly
illustrated by Sanchoniatho's account, under his ninth generation, that
Agrouerus, or Agrotes, the husbandman, had a much-worshipped statue
and temple, carried about by one or more yoke of oxen, or kine, in
Phoenicia, in the neighborhood of these Philistines. See Cumberland's
Sanchoniatho, p. 27 and 247; and Essay on the Old Testament, Append. p.
172.

[4] These seventy men, being not so much as Levites, touched the ark
in a rash or profane manner, and were slain by the hand of God for such
their rashness and profaneness, according to the Divine threatenings,
Numbers 4:15, 20; but how other copies come to add such an incredible
number as fifty thousand in this one town, or small city, I know not.
See Dr. Wall's Critical Notes on 1 Samuel 6:19.

[5] This is the first place, so far as I remember, in these Antiquities,
where Josephus begins to call his nation Jews, he having hitherto
usually, if not constantly, called them either Hebrews or Israelites.
The second place soon follows; see also ch. 3. sect. 5.

[6] Of this great mistake of Saul and his servant, as if true prophet of
God would accept of a gift or present, for foretelling what was desired
of him, see the note on B. IV. ch. 6. sect. 3.

[7] It seems to me not improbable that these seventy guests of Samuel,
as here, with himself at the head of them, were a Jewish sanhedrim, and
that hereby Samuel intimated to Saul that these seventy-one were to be
his constant counselors, and that he was to act not like a sole monarch,
but with the advice and direction of these seventy-one members of that
Jewish sanhedrim upon all occasions, which yet we never read that he
consulted afterward.

[8] An instance of this Divine fury we have after this in Saul, ch.
5. sect. 2, 3; 1 Samuel 11:6. See the like, Judges 3:10; 6:34; 11:29;
13:25; and 14:6.

[9] Take here Theodoret's note, cited by Dr. Hudson:--"He that exposes
his shield to the enemy with his left