The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 4:14 (NASB)
[SUP]14 [/SUP] When Eli heard the noise of the outcry, he said, "What does the noise of this commotion mean?" Then the man came hurriedly and told Eli.

 

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1 Samuel 4:15 (NASB)
[SUP]15 [/SUP] Now Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes were set so that he could not see.

 

[seed_time_harvest]

1 Samuel 4:16
King James Version(KJV)

16.)And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 4:17 (NASB)
[SUP]17 [/SUP] Then the one who brought the news replied, "Israel has fled before the Philistines and there has also been a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been taken."

 

[willfollowsGod]

1 Samuel 4:18
New International Version (NIV)

When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward off his chair by the side of the gate. His neck was broken and he died, for he was an old man, and he was heavy. He had led Israel forty years.

 

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1 Samuel 4:19 Now his daughter-in-law, Phinehas’s wife, was with child, due to be delivered; and when she heard the news that the ark of God was captured, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and gave birth, for her labor pains came upon her.

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 4:20 (NASB)
[SUP]20 [/SUP] And about the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, "Do not be afraid, for you have given birth to a son." But she did not answer or pay attention.

 

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1 Samuel 4:21
King James Version(KJV)

21..)And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 4:22 (NASB)
[SUP]22 [/SUP] She said, "The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God was taken."

 

[mario1001]

1 Samuel 5:1 Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 5:2 (NASB)
[SUP]2 [/SUP] Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it to the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon.

 

[mario1001]

1 Samuel 5:3 When the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, there was Dagon, fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the LORD! They took Dagon and put him back in his place.

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 5:4 (NASB)
[SUP]4 [/SUP] But when they arose early the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD. And the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off on the threshold; only the trunk of Dagon was left to him.



Down he goes again.....

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 5:5 (NASB)
[SUP]5 [/SUP] Therefore neither the priests of Dagon nor all who enter Dagon's house tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.

 

[willfollowsGod]

1 Samuel 5:6
New International Version (NIV)

The LORD’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity; he brought devastation on them and afflicted them with tumors.[a]

a. Hebrew; Septuagint and Vulgate tumors. And rats appeared in their land, and there was death and destruction throughout the city

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 5:7 (NASB)
[SUP]7 [/SUP] When the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, "The ark of the God of Israel must not remain with us, for His hand is severe on us and on Dagon our god."

 

[mario1001]

1 Samuel 5:8 So they called together all the rulers of the Philistines and asked them, "What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?" They answered, "Have the ark of the God of Israel moved to Gath." So they moved the ark of the God of Israel.

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 5:9 (NASB)
[SUP]9 [/SUP] After they had brought it around, the hand of the LORD was against the city with very great confusion; and He smote the men of the city, both young and old, so that tumors broke out on them.

 

[seed_time_harvest]

1 Samuel 5:10
King James Version(KJV)

10.)Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.

 

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