1 Samuel 5:1
Good News Translation
After the Philistines captured the Covenant Box, they carried it from Ebenezer to their city of Ashdod,

New Revised Standard Version
When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod;

Contemporary English Version
The Philistines took the sacred chest from near Ebenezer to the town of Ashdod.

New American Bible
The Philistines, having captured the ark of God, transferred it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Philistines took the ark of God, and carried it from the Stone of help into Azotus.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Philistines took the ark of God, and carried it from the Stone of help into Azotus.

took

1 Samuel 4:11,17,18,22 And the ark of God was taken: and the two sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were slain. . . .

Psalm 78:61 And he delivered their strength into captivity: and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.

Eben-ezer

1 Samuel 4:1 And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight: and Israel went out to war against the Philistines, and camped by the Stone of help. And the Philistines came to Aphec,

1 Samuel 7:12 And Samuel took a stone, and laid it between Masphath and Sen: and he called the place The stone of help. And he said: Thus far the Lord hath helped us.

Joshua 11:22 He left not any of the stock of the Enacims, in the land of the children of Israel: except the cities of Gaza, and Geth, and Azotus, in which alone they were left.

Acts 8:40 But Philip was found in Azotus: and passing through, he preached the gospel to all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.

Azotus

Context
The Ark Afflicts the Philistines
1And the Philistines took the ark of God, and carried it from the Stone of help into Azotus.2And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the temple of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.…
Cross References
Acts 8:40
But Philip was found in Azotus: and passing through, he preached the gospel to all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.

Joshua 11:22
He left not any of the stock of the Enacims, in the land of the children of Israel: except the cities of Gaza, and Geth, and Azotus, in which alone they were left.

Joshua 13:3
From the troubled river, that watereth Egypt, unto the border of Accaron northward: the land of Chanaan, which is divided among the lords of the Philistines, the Gazites, the Azotians, the Ascalonites, the Gethites, and the Accronites.

1 Samuel 4:1
And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight: and Israel went out to war against the Philistines, and camped by the Stone of help. And the Philistines came to Aphec,

1 Samuel 4:22
And she said: The glory is departed from Israel, because the ark of God was taken.

1 Samuel 7:12
And Samuel took a stone, and laid it between Masphath and Sen: and he called the place The stone of help. And he said: Thus far the Lord hath helped us.

Isaiah 20:1
In the year that Tharthan entered into Azotus, when Sargon the king of the Assyrians had sent him, and he had fought against Azotus, and had taken it:

Amos 3:9
Publish it in the houses of Azotus, and in the houses of the land of Egypt, and say: Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the many follies in the midst thereof, and them that suffer oppression in the inner rooms thereof.

1 Samuel 4:22
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