"And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken."
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Verse 1 Samuel 4:17. _AND THE MESSENGER ANSWERED_] Never was a more
afflictive message, containing such a variety of woes, each rising
above the preceding, delivered in so few words.
1. _Israel is fl...
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5. THE JUDGMENT OF ELI AND HIS SONS--ICHABOD
CHAPTER 4
_ 1. The fulfilled prediction: The death of Eli's sons (1 Samuel 4:1)_
2. The death of Eli (1 Samuel 4:12)
3. Ichabod (1 Samuel 4:19)
Israel...
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DEATH OF ELI, BIRTH OF ICHABOD.
1 Samuel 4:12. clothes rent, etc.: signs of mourning.
1 Samuel 4:18. forty; LXX twenty. AND HE... YEARS: formula used by
Deuteronomic editor of Jg. (Judges 10:2 f; Jud...
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AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ in 1 Samuel 4:17....
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The Death of Eli...
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_Death of Eli._ 1 Samuel 4:12-18
12 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh
the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.
13 And when he came, lo, Eli...
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_AND WHEN ELI HEARD THE NOISE OF THE CRYING, HE SAID, WHAT MEANETH THE
NOISE OF THIS TUMULT? AND THE MAN CAME IN HASTILY, AND TOLD ELI._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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CAPTURE OF THE ARK BY THE PHILISTINES. DEATH OF ELI
The reason which led to 1 Samuel 4:1; being detached from its proper
context is that without it this chapter seems to begin with
inexplicable abrup...
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ISRAEL’S FIRST KING
1 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 4
THE *PHILISTINES STEAL THE *ARK OF GOD
V1 When Samuel spoke, all the *Israelites listened to him.
Now the *Israelites went out to fight aga...
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וַ יַּ֨עַן הַֽ מְבַשֵּׂ֜ר וַ יֹּ֗אמֶר
נָ֤ס יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לִ פְנֵ֣י
פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים וְ גַ֛ם מַגֵּפָ֥ה...
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CHAPTER VI.
_ THE ARK OF GOD TAKEN BY THE PHILISTINES_.
1 Samuel 4:1.
WE are liable to form an erroneous impression of the connection of
Samuel with the transactions of this chapter, in consequence...
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THE GLORY DEPARTED FROM ISRAEL
1 Samuel 4:12
Notwithstanding their high hopes, disaster again overtook the hosts of
Israel. No symbols of God will help us, until we have put away our
idols and laid...
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The crisis of judgment foretold by Samuel to Eli now arrived. It was a
Philistine attack on the people, in which large numbers were slain,
among them the two sons of Eli. On hearing the news Eli himse...
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And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the
Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the
people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, (b) are dead, and
t...
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_Taken. Every sentence expresses something more distressing to the
aged judge and father; the flight and slaughter of his people, the
ruin of his children, and the loss of the ark, which must have fil...
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(12) В¶ And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to
Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his
head. (13) And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the ways...
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The first Book of Samuel (or of Kings as with some) brings before us
that great change for which the Book of Ruth was a preparation, and in
order to which the Spirit of God closed it with the generati...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6.
In chapter 4 the enemies of God and of His people display their
strength; the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel. God,
in overrul...
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AND THE MESSENGER ANSWERED AND SAID,.... He delivered his account
gradually, beginning with generals, and then proceeding to
particulars, and with what he thought Eli could better bear the news
of, an...
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And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the
Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the
people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the
a...
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1 The Israelites are ouercome by the Philistines at Aben-Ezer.
3 They fetch the Arke, vnto the terrour of the Philistines.
10 They are smitten againe, the Arke taken, Hophni and Phinehas are
slaine....
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Death of Eli and of his Daughter-In-Law...
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Verse 1 shows that Samuel did not conceal the word that God gave to
him, but communicated it to all Israel. But it is not said that it was
this word that called them to battle with the Philistines. It...
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12-18 The defeat of the army was very grievous to Eli as a judge; the
tidings of the death of his two sons, to whom he had been so
indulgent, and who, as he had reason to fear, died impenitent, touche...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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1 Samuel 4:17 messenger H1319 (H8764) answered H6030 (H8799) said H559
(H8799) Israel H3478 fled H5127 (H8804) before H6440 Philistines H6430
great H1419 slaughter H4046 people H5971 two H8147 sons H1...
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NEWS IS BROUGHT TO SHILOH OF THE CAPTURE OF THE ARK OF YHWH AND THE
DEATH OF ELI'S TWO SONS (1 SAMUEL 4:11).
The devastating news now comes to Shiloh of the capture of the Ark of
YHWH and the deaths...
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1 SAMUEL 1-4
_(with Judges 21:16)_
I. With all his virtues and natural advantages Eli had one great
fault. He was a good man of the easy type; the kind of man who makes
an admirable servant, who doe...
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CONTENTS: Ark taken by Philistines.
CHARACTERS: God, Eli, Hophni, Phinehas, his wife, Ichabod.
CONCLUSION: One may go forth with a Bible under the arm and a shout
upon the lips and yet not have God...
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1 Samuel 4:5. _Israel shouted._ But why had they not put away their
sins? And why had they not enquired of God? Alas, these priests, like
Saul in his last moments, were not fit persons to enquire of G...
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_And the Philistines fought and Israel was smitten._
THE HARVEST OF SIN
This story tells of a harvest that had long been predicted, and that
at length was reaped. “They have sown the wind, and they...
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 4:17 YOUR TWO SONS... ARE DEAD is the sign
that Eli had been told to expect as a forewarning of the destruction
of his priestly descendants (1 Samuel 2:34), but it seems that...
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—
1 Samuel 4:13. “ELI SAT UPON A SEAT BY THE WAYSIDE.” “This
sitting on the side of the way by which the first message must come
answers precisely to the intense expectat...
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EXPOSITION
1 SAMUEL 4:1
AND THE WORD OF SAMUEL... ALL ISRAEL. This clause is rightly connected
with the foregoing verse of the previous chapter in the Syriac and
Vulgate. Attached to the fourth chapt...
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Now in chapter four we find the Philistines had come against the
Israelites and they met them in battle and defeated them. Four
thousand of the men of Israel were slain. So the Philistines were
gettin...
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1 Samuel 3:11; 1 Samuel 4:10; 1 Samuel 4:11...
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THE ARK TAKEN BY THE PHILISTINES
1 Samuel 4:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We would like to suggest something of the history of the Ark of the
Covenant.
1. THE ARK WAS SYMBOLICAL OF CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD. T...