1Samuel:4:1-11
geneva@1Samuel:4:1 @ And Samuel spake vnto all Israel: and Israel went out against the Philistims to battel and pitched beside Eben-ezer: and the Philistims pitched in Aphek.
geneva@1Samuel:4:2 @ And the Philistims put themselues in aray against Israel: and when they ioyned the battell, Israel was smitten downe before the Philistims: who slewe of the armie in the fielde about foure thousand men.
geneva@1Samuel:4:3 @ And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, (note:)For it seems that this war was undertaken by Samuel's commandment.(:note) 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.
geneva@1Samuel:4:4 @ So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which (note:)For he used to appear to the Israelites between the cherubim over the ark of the covenant, (Exo_25:17).(:note) dwelleth [between] the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, [were] there with the ark of the covenant of God.
geneva@1Samuel:4:5 @ And when the Arke of the couenant of the Lord came into the hoste, all Israel shouted a mightie shoute, so that the earth rang againe.
geneva@1Samuel:4:6 @ And when the Philistims heard the noyse of the shoute, they said, What meaneth the sound of this mightie shoute in the host of the Ebrewes? and they vnderstoode, that the Arke of the Lord was come into the hoste.
geneva@1Samuel:4:7 @ And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, (note:)Before we fought against men, and now God has come to fight against us.(:note) Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a thing heretofore.
geneva@1Samuel:4:8 @ 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 (note:)For in the Red Sea in the wilderness the Egyptians were destroyed, which was the last of all his plagues.(:note) wilderness.
geneva@1Samuel:4:9 @ Be strong and play the men, O Philistims, that ye be not seruants vnto the Ebrewes, as they haue serued you: be valiant therefore, and fight.
geneva@1Samuel:4:10 @ 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 (note:)David alluding to this place in (Psa_78:63) says they were consumed with fire: meaning they were suddenly destroyed.(:note) thirty thousand footmen.
geneva@1Samuel:4:11 @ And the Arke of God was taken, and the two sonnes of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas died.
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