Most Popular Bible Verses in 1 Samuel 4
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When the ark of the covenant of the Lord entered the camp, all the Israelites raised such a loud shout that the ground shook.
The Philistines heard the sound of the war cry and asked, “What’s this loud shout in the Hebrews’ camp?” When the Philistines discovered that the ark of the Lord had entered the camp,
they panicked. “The gods have entered their camp!” they said. “Woe to us, nothing like this has happened before.
Woe to us, who will rescue us from the hand of these magnificent gods? These are the gods that slaughtered the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.
Show some courage and be men, Philistines!
And Samuel’s words came to all Israel.
Israel went out to meet the Philistines in battle and
So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated,
That same day, a Benjaminite man ran
She named the boy Ichabod,
When he arrived, there was Eli sitting on his chair beside the road watching,
So the people sent men to Shiloh to bring back the ark of the covenant of the Lord of Hosts, who dwells between the cherubim.
The Philistines lined up in battle formation against Israel, and as the battle intensified, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who struck down about 4,000 men on the battlefield.
When the troops returned to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why did the Lord let us be defeated today by the Philistines?
When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward off the chair by the city gate,
Eli heard the outcry and asked, “Why this commotion?” The man quickly came and reported to Eli.
The messenger answered, “Israel has fled from the Philistines, and also there was a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”
At that time Eli was 98 years old, and his gaze was fixed
As she was dying,
Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news about the capture of God’s ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth because her labor pains came on her.
“The glory has departed from Israel,” she said, “because the ark of God has been captured.”