1 Samuel 4
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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.
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.
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.

Wherefore

Deuteronomy 29:24 Even all nations shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land? …

Psalm 74:1,11 O God, why have you cast us off for ever? why does your anger smoke …

Isaiah 50:1 Thus said the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, whom …

Isaiah 58:3 Why have we fasted, say they, and you see not? why have we afflicted …

Let us

1 Samuel 14:18 And Saul said to Ahiah, Bring here the ark of God. For the ark of …

Numbers 31:6 And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and …

Joshua 6:4,5 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' …

2 Samuel 15:25 And the king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: …

Isaiah 1:11-15 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? said the …

Jeremiah 7:4,8-15 Trust you not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The …

Matthew 3:9,10 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: …

fetch [heb] take unto us
the ark

Numbers 10:33 And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey…

Deuteronomy 31:26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the …

Joshua 4:7 Then you shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off …

1 Chronicles 17:1 Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to …

Jeremiah 3:16 And it shall come to pass, when you be multiplied and increased in …

Hebrews 9:4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid …

it may save

Jeremiah 7:8-11 Behold, you trust in lying words, that cannot profit…

Amos 5:21,22 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn …

Matthew 23:25-28 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean …

Romans 2:28,29 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, …

1 Corinthians 10:1-5 Moreover, brothers, I would not that you should be ignorant, how …

2 Timothy 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

1 Peter 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism does also now save us (not …

Jude 1:5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though you once knew this, …

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
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.
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.
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.
Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.
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?
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.
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.
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.

be delivered. or, cry out.
came upon her. [heb] were turned

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.
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.
And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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