1 Samuel 4:1
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| Overview - 1 Samuel 4 | |
| 1 | The Israelites are overcome by the Philistines at Ebenezer. |
| 3 | They fetch the ark unto the terror of the Philistines. |
| 10 | They are smitten again, the ark taken, and Hophni and Phinehas are slain. |
| 12 | Eli at the news, falling backward, breaks his neck. |
| 19 | Phinehas's wife, discouraged in her travail with I-chabod, dies. |
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1 Samuel 4:1 (King James Version)
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. 2863. B.C. 1141. An. Ex. Is. 350. came. or, came to
- pass
- Hebrew was.
- 3:11
- Eben-ezer
- That is, the place afterwards so called: See the Parallel Texts. 5:1 7:12
- Aphek
- This Aphek was situated in the tribe of Judah, and is probably the same as Aphekah.
- Joshua 15:53
- It must be carefully distinguished from that near Jezreel, and another in Asher.
- 29:1 Joshua 19:30 ; 1 Kings 20:30