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1 Samuel 4:11 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" God’s ark was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain. "

1 Samuel 4:11

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9 Be strong and behave like men, O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Strengthen yourselves like men, and fight!”

10 The Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. There was a very great slaughter; for thirty thousand footmen of Israel fell.

11 God’s ark was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

12 A man of Benjamin ran out of the army and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head.

13 When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for God’s ark. When the man came into the city and told about it, all the city cried out.

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1 Samuel 1:3

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"This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to the LORD, were there."

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1 Samuel 31:8

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"On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa."

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1 Chronicles 10:8

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"On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa."

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1 Chronicles 8:25

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Judges 20:28

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"and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, “Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease?” The LORD said, “Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand.”"

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Numbers 25:7

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"When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the middle of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand."

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1 Samuel 4:1

"The word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer; and the Philistines encamped in Aphek."

1 Samuel 4:2

"The Philistines put themselves in array against Israel. When they joined battle, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men of the army in the field."

1 Samuel 4:3

"When the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has the LORD defeated us today before the Philistines? Let’s get the ark of the LORD’s covenant out of Shiloh and bring it to us, that it may come among us and save us out of the hand of our enemies.”"

1 Samuel 4:4

"So the people sent to Shiloh, and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of the LORD of Armies, who sits above the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God."

1 Samuel 4:5

"When the ark of the LORD’s covenant came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth resounded."

1 Samuel 4:6

"When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, “What does the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?” They understood that the LORD’s ark had come into the camp."

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