1 Samuel 4:3

Overview - 1 Samuel 4
The Israelites are overcome by the Philistines at Ebenezer.
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 4:3  (King James Version)
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 ; Psalms 74:1 Psalms 74:11 ; Isaiah 50:1 ; 58:3

Let us
14:18 Numbers 31:6 ; Joshua 6:4 Joshua 6:5 ; 2 Samuel 15:25 ; Isaiah 1:11-15 ; Jeremiah 7:4 Jeremiah 7:8-15
Matthew 3:9 Matthew 3:10

fetch
Hebrew take unto us. the ark.
Numbers 10:33 ; Deuteronomy 31:26 ; Joshua 4:7 ; 1 Chronicles 17:1 ; Jeremiah 3:16 ; Hebrews 9:4

it may save
Jeremiah 7:8-11 ; Amos 5:21 Amos 5:22 ; Matthew 23:25-28 ; Romans 2:28 Romans 2:29 ; 1 Corinthians 10:1-5
2 Timothy 3:5 ; 1 Peter 3:21 ; Jude 1:5