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Chapter Four And the word of Samuel came
to all Israel.

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Now Israel went out against the
Philistines to battle, and pitched beside

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Ebenezer.

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And the Philistines pitched in Aphek.

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And the Philistines put themselves in
array against Israel.

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And when they joined battle, Israel was
smitten before the Philistines,

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and they slew of the army in the field
about four thousand men.

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And when the people were come into the
camp, the elders of Israel said,

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Wherefore hath the Lord smitten us today
before the Philistines?

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Let us fetch the Ark of the Covenant of
the Lord out of Shiloh unto us,

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that when it cometh among us, it may save
us out of the hand of our enemies.

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So the people sent to Shiloh, that they
might bring from thence the Ark of the

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Covenant of the Lord of hosts,
which dwelleth between the cherubims.

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And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and
Phinehas, were there with the Ark of the

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Covenant of God.

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And when the Ark of the Covenant of the
Lord came into the camp, all Israel

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shouted with a great shout, so that the
earth rang again.

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And when the Philistines heard the noise
of the shout, they said, What meaneth the

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noise of this great shout in the camp of
the Hebrews?

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And they understood that the Ark of the
Lord was come into the camp.

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And the Philistines were afraid,
for they said, God is come into the camp.

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And they said, Woe unto us, for there hath
not been such a thing heretofore.

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Woe unto us!

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Who shall deliver us out of the hand of
these mighty gods?

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These are the gods that smote the
Egyptians with all the plagues in the

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wilderness.

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Be strong, and quit yourselves like men,
O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants

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unto the Hebrews, as they have been to
you.

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Quit yourselves like men, and fight.

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And the Philistines fought, and Israel was
smitten.

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And they fled every man into his tent.

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And there was a very great slaughter,
for there fell of Israel thirty thousand

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footmen.

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And the Ark of God was taken, and the two
sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas,

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were slain.

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And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the
army, and came to Shiloh the same day with

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his clothes rent, and with earth upon his
head.

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And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat
by the wayside watching, for his heart

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trembled for the Ark of God.

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And when the man came into the city and
told it, all the city cried out.

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And when Eli heard the noise of the
crying, he said, What meaneth the noise of

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this tumult?

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And the man came in hastily and told Eli.

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Now Eli was ninety and eight years old,
and his eyes were dim that he could not

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see.

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And the man said unto Eli, I am he that
came out of the army, and I fled today out

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of the army.

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And he said, What is there done,
my son?

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And the messenger answered and said,
Israel has fled before the Philistines,

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and there hath been also a great slaughter
among the people, and thy two sons also,

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Hophni and Phinehas, are dead,
and the Ark of God is taken.

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And it came to pass, when he made mention
of the Ark of God, that he fell from off

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the seat backward by the side of the gate,
and his neck break, and he died.

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For he was an old man and heavy,
and he had judged Israel forty years.

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And his daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife,
was with child near to be delivered.

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And when she heard the tidings that the
Ark of God was taken, and that her

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father-in-law and her husband were dead,
she bowed herself and travailed,

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for her pains came upon her.

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And about the time of her death,
the women that stood by her said unto her,

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Fear not, for thou hast born a son.

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But she answered not, neither did she
regard it.

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And she named the child Ichabod,
saying, The glory is departed from Israel.

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Because the Ark of God was taken,
and because of her father-in-law and her

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husband.

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And she said, The glory is departed from
Israel, for the Ark of God is taken.