Woe to us! Who shall deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who smote the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.At this point, it almost seems that the Israelites are going to win before the battle even begins. Just the Philistines knowing that the Israelites have brought the Ark to the battlefield scares them. This is a pagan society, and that believes in the presence of deities. They don't understand God, obviously, since they refer to Him in the plural.
I also like how they know what God has done for the Israelites, even if the stories appear to have been skewed a little in the telling (back to the whole plural thing). They know enough about the Israelites and the Egyptians that they have fear of God, so they aren't completely hopeless. Unfortunately, they take that fear and channel it, rather than submitting to God.
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