1Samuel:3-5
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And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli .
And the word of the LORD was precious in those days ;
there was no open vision .
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And it came to pass at that time ,
when Eli was laid down in his place ,
and his eyes began to wax dim ,
that he could not see ;
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And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD ,
where the ark of God was ,
and Samuel was laid down to sleep ;
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That the LORD called Samuel :
and he answered ,
Here am I .
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And he ran unto Eli ,
and said ,
Here am I ;
for thou calledst me .
And he said ,
I called not ;
lie down again .
And he went and lay down .
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And the LORD called yet again ,
Samuel .
And Samuel arose and went to Eli ,
and said ,
Here am I ;
for thou didst call me .
And he answered ,
I called not ,
my son ;
lie down again .
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Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD ,
neither was the word of the LORD yet revealed unto him .
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And the LORD called Samuel again the third time .
And he arose and went to Eli ,
and said ,
Here am I ;
for thou didst call me .
And Eli perceived that the LORD had called the child .
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Therefore Eli said unto Samuel ,
Go ,
lie down :
and it shall be ,
if he call thee ,
that thou shalt say ,
Speak ,
LORD ;
for thy servant heareth .
So Samuel went and lay down in his place .
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And the LORD came ,
and stood ,
and called as at other times ,
Samuel ,
Samuel .
Then Samuel answered ,
Speak ;
for thy servant heareth .
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And the LORD said to Samuel ,
Behold ,
I will do a thing in Israel ,
at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle .
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In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house :
when I begin ,
I will also make an end .
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For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth ;
because his sons made themselves vile ,
and he restrained them not .
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And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli ,
that the iniquity of Eli '
s house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever .
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And Samuel lay until the morning ,
and opened the doors of the house of the LORD .
And Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision .
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Then Eli called Samuel ,
and said ,
Samuel ,
my son .
And he answered ,
Here am I .
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And he said ,
What is the thing that the LORD hath said unto thee ?
I pray thee hide it not from me :
God do so to thee ,
and more also ,
if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee .
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And Samuel told him every whit ,
and hid nothing from him .
And he said ,
It is the LORD :
let him do what seemeth him good .
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And Samuel grew ,
and the LORD was with him ,
and did let none of his words fall to the ground .
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And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD .
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And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh :
for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD .
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And the word of Samuel came to all Israel .
Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle ,
and pitched beside Ebenezer :
and the Philistines pitched in Aphek .
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And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel :
and when they joined battle ,
Israel was smitten before the Philistines :
and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men .
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And when the people were come into the camp ,
the elders of Israel said ,
Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines ?
Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us ,
that ,
when it cometh among us ,
it may save us out of the hand of our enemies .
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So the people sent to Shiloh ,
that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts ,
which dwelleth between the cherubims :
and the two sons of Eli ,
Hophni and Phinehas ,
were there with the ark of the covenant of God .
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And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp ,
all Israel shouted with a great shout ,
so that the earth rang again .
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And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout ,
they said ,
What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews ?
And they understood that the ark of the LORD was come into the camp .
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And the Philistines were afraid ,
for they said ,
God is come into the camp .
And they said ,
Woe unto us !
for there hath not been such a thing heretofore .
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Woe unto us !
who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods ?
these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness .
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Be strong ,
and quit yourselves like men ,
O ye Philistines ,
that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews ,
as they have been to you :
quit yourselves like men ,
and fight .
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And the Philistines fought ,
and Israel was smitten ,
and they fled every man into his tent :
and there was a very great slaughter ;
for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen .
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And the ark of God was taken ;
and the two sons of Eli ,
Hophni and Phinehas ,
were slain .
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And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army ,
and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent ,
and with earth upon his head .
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And when he came ,
lo ,
Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside watching :
for his heart trembled for the ark of God .
And when the man came into the city ,
and told it ,
all the city cried out .
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And when Eli heard the noise of the crying ,
he said ,
What meaneth the noise of this tumult ?
And the man came in hastily ,
and told Eli .
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Now Eli was ninety and eight years old ;
and his eyes were dim ,
that he could not see .
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And the man said unto Eli ,
I am he that came out of the army ,
and I fled to day out of the army .
And he said ,
What is there done ,
my son ?
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And the messenger answered and said ,
Israel is fled before the Philistines ,
and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people ,
and thy two sons also ,
Hophni and Phinehas ,
are dead ,
and the ark of God is taken .
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And it came to pass ,
when he made mention of the ark of God ,
that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate ,
and his neck brake ,
and he died :
for he was an old man ,
and heavy .
And he had judged Israel forty years .
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And his daughter in law ,
Phinehas '
wife ,
was with child ,
near to be delivered :
and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken ,
and that her father in law and her husband were dead ,
she bowed herself and travailed ;
for her pains came upon her .
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And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her ,
Fear not ;
for thou hast born a son .
But she answered not ,
neither did she regard it .
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And she named the child Ichabod ,
saying ,
The glory is departed from Israel :
because the ark of God was taken ,
and because of her father in law and her husband .
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And she said ,
The glory is departed from Israel :
for the ark of God is taken .
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And the Philistines took the ark of God ,
and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod .
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When the Philistines took the ark of God ,
they brought it into the house of Dagon ,
and set it by Dagon .
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And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow ,
behold ,
Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD .
And they took Dagon ,
and set him in his place again .
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And when they arose early on the morrow morning ,
behold ,
Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD ;
and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold ;
only the stump of Dagon was left to him .
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Therefore neither the priests of Dagon ,
nor any that come into Dagon '
s house ,
tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day .
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But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod ,
and he destroyed them ,
and smote them with emerods ,
even Ashdod and the coasts thereof .
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And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so ,
they said ,
The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us :
for his hand is sore upon us ,
and upon Dagon our god .
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They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them ,
and said ,
What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel ?
And they answered ,
Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath .
And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about thither .
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And it was so ,
that ,
after they had carried it about ,
the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction :
and he smote the men of the city ,
both small and great ,
and they had emerods in their secret parts .
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Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron .
And it came to pass ,
as the ark of God came to Ekron ,
that the Ekronites cried out ,
saying ,
They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us ,
to slay us and our people .
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So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines ,
and said ,
Send away the ark of the God of Israel ,
and let it go again to his own place ,
that it slay us not ,
and our people :
for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city ;
the hand of God was very heavy there .
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And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods :
and the cry of the city went up to heaven .
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And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months .
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