1 Samuel 4:12
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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 4:12 (King James Version)
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
- with earth
- Joshua 7:6 ; 2 Samuel 13:19 ; 15:32 Nehemiah 9:1 ; Job 2:12