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Verse 1 Samuel 4:7. _GOD IS COME INTO THE CAMP._] They took for
granted, as did the Israelites, that his presence was inseparable from
his ark or shrine....
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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)...
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1 SAMUEL 4:1 B. NOW ISRAEL. 1 SAMUEL 4:1 (E). From ANCIENT HISTORY OF
THE ARK (_cf._ above, p. 273).
1 Samuel 4:1 b - 1 Samuel 4:11
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WOE UNTO US! Figure of speech _Anaphora_ (App-6), repeated in 1 Samuel
4:8....
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Observe how vividly the successive emotions of the Philistines are
painted: _astonishment_, when they heard the triumphant shout of the
vanquished army: _dismay_, when they learnt its cause: manly
_re...
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The Loss of the Ark and End of Eli's House, 1 Samuel 4:1-22.
_The Loss of the Ark._ 1 Samuel 4:1-11
And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against
the Philistines to battle, a...
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_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! Fo...
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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 abrupt...
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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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GOD IS COME INTO THE CAMP. — The joy manifested by the Israelites at
the arrival of the Ark from the sanctuary made the Philistines suspect
that their enemies’ God was now present with the defeated ar...
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וַ יִּֽרְאוּ֙ הַ פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים כִּ֣י
אָמְר֔וּ...
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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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TRUSTING IN THE ARK, NOT IN GOD
1 Samuel 4:1
The predictions against Eli's house now begin to be fulfilled. It was
fitting for Israel to institute an inquiry into the causes of defeat.
This is always...
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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 Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the
camp. And they said, (c) Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a
thing heretofore.
(c) Before we fought against men, and now G...
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(6) And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said,
What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews?
And they understood that the ark of the LORD was come into...
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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 PHILISTINES WERE AFRAID,.... When the spies returned, and
reported to them the reason of the shouting:
FOR THEY SAID, GOD IS COME INTO THE CAMP; into the camp of Israel,
because the ark repre...
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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.
Ver. 7. _And the Philistines were afraid._] But...
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_God is come into the camp_ Thus these ignorant idolaters termed the
mere symbol of God's presence God, imagining, no doubt, that the
Israelites worshipped it. _They said, Wo unto us_ The name of the...
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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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THE ARK OF THE COVENANT IN CAMP...
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And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the
camp. Like all heathen, they had a superstitious fear of the
supernatural, also of the deities of their enemies. Moreover, the
Phil...
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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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HERETOFORE:
_ Heb._ yesterday, or the third day...
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1-9 Israel is smitten before the Philistines. Sin, the accursed
thing, was in the camp, and gave their enemies all the advantage they
could wish for. They own the hand of God in their trouble; but,
i...
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GOD IS COME, to wit, in and with his ark; or they give the name of God
to the ark, before which he was worshipped, as they used to do to the
images of their false gods. There hath not been such a thin...
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1 Samuel 4:7 Philistines H6430 afraid H3372 (H8799) said H559 (H8804)
God H430 come H935 (H8804) camp...
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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 does...
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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 were afraid, for they said, God is come into the
camp._
IS GOD IN THE CAMP?
I. Consider the great mistake which both Israelites and the
Philistines made. The Israelites, instead...
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 4:7 A GOD. The Philistines thought the ark
was an image of Israel’s God. Because they believed in the existence
of many GODS, the Philistines assumed Israel
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—
1 Samuel 4:1. “AND THE WORD OF SAMUEL,” etc. Commentators are
divided in their opinions whether this clause is connected with the
rest of the chapter, and whether it sig...
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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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Deuteronomy 32:30; Exodus 14:25; Exodus 15:14...
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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. TH...
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Heretofore — Not in our times; for the fore — mentioned removals
of the ark were before it came to Shiloh....