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.
A.M.
1 Samuel 3:11 And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, …
Eben-ezer. That is, the place afterwards so called
1 Samuel 5:1 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.
1 Samuel 7:12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and …
Aphek This Aphek was situated in the tribe of Judah, and is probably the same as Aphekah
Joshua 15:53 And Janum, and Bethtappuah, and Aphekah,
It must be carefully distinguished from that near Jezreel, and another in Asher.
1 Samuel 29:1 Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: …
Joshua 19:30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.
1 Kings 20:30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell …
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.
put
1 Samuel 17:8,21 And he stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, …
they joined battle [heb] the battle was spread
Israel
Joshua 7:5-8,12 And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they …
Psalm 44:9,10 But you have cast off, and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies…
and they
Psalm 79:7,8 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place…
Psalm 106:40,41 Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, so …
Lamentations 3:40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
the army [heb] the array
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.
which dwelleth
2 Samuel 6:2 And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him …
2 Kings 19:15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, …
Psalm 80:1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you that lead Joseph like a flock; …
Psalm 99:1 The LORD reigns; let the people tremble: he sits between the cherubim; …
the cherubims
Exodus 25:18-22 And you shall make two cherubim of gold, of beaten work shall you …
Numbers 7:89 And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to …
Hophni
1 Samuel 2:12-17,22 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD…
Psalm 50:16,17 But to the wicked God said, What have you to do to declare my statutes, …
Malachi 1:9 And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious to us: …
Acts 19:15,16 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; …
with the ark
Numbers 4:5,15 And when the camp sets forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and …
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.
Be strong
2 Samuel 10:12 Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for …
1 Corinthians 16:13 Watch you, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
Ephesians 6:10,11 Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might…
as they have
Deuteronomy 28:47,48 Because you served not the LORD your God with joyfulness, and with …
Judges 10:7 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them …
Judges 13:1 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD…
Isaiah 14:2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place…
Isaiah 33:1 Woe to you that spoil, and you were not spoiled; and deal treacherously…
quit yourselves like men. [heb] be men
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.
Israel
1 Samuel 4:2 And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when …
Leviticus 26:17 And I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain before …
Deuteronomy 28:25 The LORD shall cause you to be smitten before your enemies: you shall …
Psalm 78:9,60-64 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back …
every man
2 Samuel 20:1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, …
1 Kings 12:16 So when all Israel saw that the king listened not to them, the people …
1 Kings 22:36 And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going …
2 Kings 14:12 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every …
a very great
2 Samuel 18:7 Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David…
2 Chronicles 13:17 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there …
2 Chronicles 28:5,6 Why the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; …
Isaiah 10:3-6 And what will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation …
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.
with his clothes rent These, as we have already remarked, were the general signs of sorrow and distress
2 Samuel 1:2 It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out …
with earth
Joshua 7:6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before …
2 Samuel 13:19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colors …
2 Samuel 15:32 And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of the mount, …
Nehemiah 9:1 Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel …
Job 2:12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they …
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.
when he made
1 Samuel 4:21,22 And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from …
Psalm 26:8 LORD, I have loved the habitation of your house, and the place where …
Psalm 42:3,10 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually …
Psalm 69:9 For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of …
Lamentations 2:15-19 All that pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their …
his neck
1 Samuel 2:31,32 Behold, the days come, that I will cut off your arm, and the arm …
1 Samuel 3:12,13 In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken …
Leviticus 10:3 Then Moses said to Aaron, This is it that the LORD spoke, saying, …
1 Corinthians 11:30-32 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep…
1 Peter 4:17,18 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: …
And he had. `He seems to have been a judge to do justice only, and that in south-west Israel.'
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.
