A search of I Samuel 4:1-11 (KJV)
“And the word of Samuel came to all Israel” (v.1). A battle took place between Israel and the Philistines with four thousand army men of Israel slain. The elders of Israel asked, “[Why] hath the Lord [beat] us…before the Philistines” (v. 3)? They said, “Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of Shiloh…when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies” (v.3).
The people of Israel traveled to Shiloh for the ark of the covenant. When the ark was within the camp, the people of Israel “…shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again” (v. 5). The Philistines were confused about the noise from the Hebrew camp until they discerned that the ark of the covenant of the Lord was in 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” (vs. 7, 8).
The Philistines fought and defeated Israel with thirty thousand men slain. “And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain” (v. 11).
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