The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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1 Samuel 3:17
New International Version (NIV)


“What was it he said to you?” Eli asked. “Do not hide it from me. May God deal with you, be it ever so severely, if you hide from me anything he told you.”
 
1 Samuel 3:21 Then the Lord appeared again in Shiloh. For the Lord revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the Lord.
 
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1 Samuel 4:1
King James Version(KJV)

1.)And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Ebenezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.
 
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1 Samuel 4:2
New International Version (NIV)


The Philistines deployed their forces to meet Israel, and as the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand of them on the battlefield.
 
1 Samuel 4:3 (NASB)
[SUP]3 [/SUP] When the people came into the camp, the elders of Israel said, "Why has the LORD defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us take to ourselves from Shiloh the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that it may come among us and deliver us from the power of our enemies."
 
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1 Samuel 4:4
King James Version(KJV)

4.)So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
 
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1 Samuel 4:5
New International Version (NIV)


When the ark of the LORD’s covenant came into the camp, all Israel raised such a great shout that the ground shook.
 
1 Samuel 4:6 (NASB)
[SUP]6 [/SUP] 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?" Then they understood that the ark of the LORD had come into the camp.
 
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[FONT=Arimo, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][/FONT][FONT=Arimo, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]1 Samuel 4:7[FONT=Arimo, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][/FONT]NIV[/FONT][FONT=Arimo, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][/FONT]
the Philistines were afraid. "A god has come into the camp," they said. "Oh no! Nothing like this has happened before.
 
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1 Samuel 4:8 (NASB)
[SUP]8 [/SUP] "Woe to us! Who shall deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who smote the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.
 
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1 Samuel 4:9
King James Version(KJV)

9.)Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.
 
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1 Samuel 4:10 (NASB)
[SUP]10 [/SUP] So the Philistines fought and Israel was defeated, and every man fled to his tent; and the slaughter was very great, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers.
 
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1 Samuel 4:12 (NASB)
[SUP]12 [/SUP] Now a man of Benjamin ran from the battle line and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes torn and dust on his head.
 
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1 Samuel 4:13
New International Version (NIV)


When he arrived, there was Eli sitting on his chair by the side of the road, watching, because his heart feared for the ark of God. When the man entered the town and told what had happened, the whole town sent up a cry.