1 Samuel 4:5
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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 4:5 (King James Version)
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.
- all Israel
- They vainly supposed that the ark would save them, when the God of it had departed from them because of their wickedness.
- Judges 15:14 ; Job 20:5 ; Jeremiah 7:4 ; Amos 6:3 ; Micah 2:11