| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Thus the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out to meet the Philistines in battle and camped beside Ebenezer while the Philistines camped in Aphek. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The Philistines drew up in battle array to meet Israel. When the battle spread, Israel was defeated before the Philistines who killed about four thousand men on the battlefield. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3When the people came into the camp, the elders of Israel said, "Why has the LORD defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us take to ourselves from Shiloh the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that it may come among us and deliver us from the power of our enemies." |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4So the people sent to Shiloh, and from there they carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts who sits above the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5As the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth resounded. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, "What does the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?" Then they understood that the ark of the LORD had come into the camp. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The Philistines were afraid, for they said, "God has come into the camp." And they said, "Woe to us! For nothing like this has happened before. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Woe to us! Who shall deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who smote the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Take courage and be men, O Philistines, or you will become slaves to the Hebrews, as they have been slaves to you; therefore, be men and fight." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10So the Philistines fought and Israel was defeated, and every man fled to his tent; and the slaughter was very great, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Now a man of Benjamin ran from the battle line and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes torn and dust on his head. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road eagerly watching, because his heart was trembling for the ark of God. So the man came to tell it in the city, and all the city cried out. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14When Eli heard the noise of the outcry, he said, "What does the noise of this commotion mean?" Then the man came hurriedly and told Eli. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Now Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes were set so that he could not see. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The man said to Eli, "I am the one who came from the battle line. Indeed, I escaped from the battle line today." And he said, "How did things go, my son?" |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Then the one who brought the news replied, "Israel has fled before the Philistines and there has also been a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been taken." |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell off the seat backward beside the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for he was old and heavy. Thus he judged Israel forty years. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Now his daughter-in-law, Phinehas's wife, was pregnant and about to give birth; and when she heard the news that the ark of God was taken and that her father-in-law and her husband had died, she kneeled down and gave birth, for her pains came upon her. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20And about the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, "Do not be afraid, for you have given birth to a son." But she did not answer or pay attention. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21And she called the boy Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel," because the ark of God was taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22She said, "The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God was taken." |
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