Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 4:11

11 Shén de yuē guì beìlǔ qù , Yǐlì de liǎng gè érzi hé Fú ní , Fēiníhā yĕ dōu beì shā le .

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 4:11 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 4:11

And the ark of God was taken
By the Philistines; which was suffered partly as a punishment to the Israelites, for fetching it from the tabernacle without the will of God, and for their vain confidence in it; and partly that the Philistines might have an experiment of the power and might of God, as Procopius Gazaeus observes, by what they would suffer through having it among them; some have thought that this was an emblem of Christ being delivered into the hands of the Gentiles, and of the Gospel being translated from the Jews to them: and the two sons of Eli,

Hophni and Phinehas,
were slain; which fulfilled the prophecy of the man of God, that they should both die in one day, ( 1 Samuel 2:34 ) . It is very probable they stood fast by the ark, and chose rather to die than to give it up freely; having received a charge from their father, that if the ark was taken, not to desire life, nor ever dare to come into his presence more, as Josephus ^F1 relates.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 Antiqu. l. 5. c. 11. sect. 2.

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 4:11 In-Context

9 Fēilìshì rén nǎ , nǐmen yào gāngqiáng , yào zuò dà zhàngfu , miǎndé zuò Xībólái rén de núpú , rútóng tāmen zuò nǐmen de núpú yíyàng . nǐmen yào zuò dà zhàngfu , yǔ tāmen zhēng zhàn .

10 Fēilìshì rén hé Yǐsèliè rén dǎzhàng , Yǐsèliè rén baì le , gè xiàng gè jiā bēn taó , beì shā de rén shén duō , Yǐsèliè de bù bīng pú dǎo le sān wàn .

11 Shén de yuē guì beìlǔ qù , Yǐlì de liǎng gè érzi hé Fú ní , Fēiníhā yĕ dōu beì shā le .

12 Dāng rì , yǒu yī gè Biànyǎmǐn rén cóng zhèn shàng taópǎo , yīfu sī liè , tóu ménghuī chén , lái dào Shìluó .

13 Dào le de shíhou , Yǐlì zhèngzaì dào páng zuò zaì zìjǐ de wèi shàng guān wàng , wèi shén de yuē guì xīnli dān yōu . nà rén jìn chéng bàoxìn , hé chéng de rén jiù dōu hūhǎn qǐlai .