Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 4:8

8 Wǒmen yǒu huò le . shuí néng jiù wǒmen tuōlí zhèxie dà néng zhī shén de shǒu ne . cóng qián zaì kuàngyĕ yòng gèyàng zāiyāng jī dá Āijí rén de , jiù shì zhèxie shén .

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 4:8 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 4:8

Woe unto us, who shall deliver us out of the hand of these
mighty gods?
&c.] Of whom they spoke in an ironical and sneering manner; or if seriously and through fear, they use their own Heathenish language, as if the Israelites had many gods, as they had, though mightier than theirs; though the Syriac and Arabic versions read in the singular, out of the hand of God, or the most strong God; and so the Targum, out of the hand of the Word of the Lord:

these are the gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the
wilderness:
the ten plagues were inflicted on the Egyptians in the land of Egypt, and not in the wilderness; wherefore the Philistines may be supposed to be mistaken in this circumstance; which is not to be wondered at, since many historians who have written of the affairs of the Jews have been mistaken in them, as Justin, Tacitus, and others; nay, even Josephus himself in some things: but perhaps respect is had to the drowning of Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea, which had the wilderness of Etham on both sides of it; and this stroke was the finishing one of the plagues on the Egyptians. R. Joseph Kimchi supposes the word for wilderness has the signification of speech, as in ( Song of Solomon 4:3 ) and that the sense of the Philistines is, that God smote the Egyptians with all the plagues he did by his word, his orders, and commands; but now he was come in person, and would smite them by himself; this sense Abarbinel calls a beautiful one.

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 4:8 In-Context

6 Fēilìshì rén tīngjian huānhū de shēngyīn , jiù shuō , zaì Xībólái rén yíng lǐ dàshēng huānhū , shì shénme yuángù ne . suíhòu jiù zhīdào Yēhéhuá de yuē guì dào le yíng zhōng .

7 Fēilìshì rén jiù jùpà qǐlai , shuō , yǒu shén dào le tāmen yíng zhōng . yòu shuō , wǒmen yǒu huò le . xiàng lái bú céng yǒu zhèyàng de shì .

8 Wǒmen yǒu huò le . shuí néng jiù wǒmen tuōlí zhèxie dà néng zhī shén de shǒu ne . cóng qián zaì kuàngyĕ yòng gèyàng zāiyāng jī dá Āijí rén de , jiù shì zhèxie shén .

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 .