_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._ The word of Samuel came to all Israel. The character of Samuel as a prophet was now fully established. The want of an "open vision... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE PHILISTINES PUT THEMSELVES IN ARRAY AGAINST ISRAEL: AND WHEN THEY JOINED BATTLE, ISRAEL WAS SMITTEN BEFORE THE PHILISTINES: AND THEY SLEW OF THE ARMY IN THE FIELD ABOUT FOUR THOUSAND MEN._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THE PEOPLE WERE COME INTO THE CAMP, THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL SAID, WHEREFORE HATH THE LORD SMITTEN US TO DAY BEFORE THE PHILISTINES? LET US FETCH THE ARK OF THE COVENANT OF THE LORD OUT OF SHILOH UNTO US, THAT, WHEN IT COMETH AMONG US, IT MAY SAVE US OUT OF THE HAND OF OUR ENEMIES._ Let us fe... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE PHILISTINES WERE AFRAID, FOR THEY SAID, GOD IS COME INTO THE CAMP. AND THEY SAID, WOE UNTO US! FOR THERE HATH NOT BEEN SUCH A THING HERETOFORE._ God is come into the camp ... Woe unto us! For there hath not been such a thing heretofore. The ark was always carried by the priests in the van... [ Continue Reading ]
_WOE UNTO US! WHO SHALL DELIVER US OUT OF THE HAND OF THESE MIGHTY GODS? THESE ARE THE GODS THAT SMOTE THE EGYPTIANS WITH ALL THE PLAGUES IN THE WILDERNESS._ Who shall deliver us out of the hands of these mighty Gods, х_ HAA'ªLOHIYM_ (H430) _ HAA'ADIYRIYM _ (H117) _ HAA'EELEH_ (H428)]? This word is... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE PHILISTINES FOUGHT, AND ISRAEL WAS SMITTEN, AND THEY FLED EVERY MAN INTO HIS TENT: AND THERE WAS A VERY GREAT SLAUGHTER; FOR THERE FELL OF ISRAEL THIRTY THOUSAND FOOTMEN._ There fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen. The slaughter in ancient warfare seems, from the records of profane as w... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE ARK OF GOD WAS TAKEN; AND THE TWO SONS OF ELI, HOPHNI AND PHINEHAS, WERE SLAIN._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN HE CAME, LO, ELI SAT UPON A SEAT BY THE WAYSIDE WATCHING: FOR HIS HEART TREMBLED FOR THE ARK OF_ _ GOD. AND WHEN THE MAN CAME INTO THE CITY, AND TOLD IT, ALL THE CITY CRIED OUT._ Eli sat upon a seat by the way-side. The aged priest, as a public magistrate, used, in dispensing justice, to... [ Continue Reading ]
_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.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN HE MADE MENTION OF THE ARK OF GOD, THAT HE FELL FROM OFF THE SEAT BACKWARD BY THE SIDE OF THE GATE, AND HIS NECK BRAKE, AND HE DIED: FOR HE WAS AN OLD MAN, AND HEAVY. AND HE HAD JUDGED ISRAEL FORTY YEARS._ He had judged Israel forty years. In the margin of the King James... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HIS DAUGHTER IN LAW, PHINEHAS' WIFE, WAS WITH CHILD, NEAR TO BE DELIVERED: AND WHEN SHE HEARD THE TIDINGS THAT THE ARK OF GOD WAS TAKEN, AND THAT HER FATHER IN LAW AND HER HUSBAND WERE DEAD, SHE BOWED HERSELF AND TRAVAILED; FOR HER PAINS CAME UPON HER._ His daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife ...... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABOUT THE TIME OF HER DEATH THE WOMEN THAT STOOD BY HER SAID UNTO HER, FEAR NOT; FOR THOU HAST BORN A SON. BUT SHE ANSWERED NOT, NEITHER DID SHE REGARD IT._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ She named the child I-chabod, х_ 'IY-KAABOWD_ (H350), inglorious].... [ Continue Reading ]