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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

1 Samuel 4:16

I am he that came out of the army; I speak not what I have by uncertain rumours, but what mine eyes were witnesses of.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Death of Eli...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _I am he_ He has to announce himself to the blind old man who cannot see the tale of disaster which his dust-soiled, blood-stained garments tell all too plainly to the people. _the army_ Better, as i...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I FLED TO DAY OUT OF THE ARMY. — The fatal battle had taken place very early that same morning. The utter rout, the awful slaughter, the death of Hophni and Phinehas, and the loss of the Ark of the Co...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר הָ אִ֜ישׁ אֶל ־עֵלִ֗י אָֽנֹכִי֙

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE MAN SAID UNTO ELI, I AM HE THAT CAME OUT OF THE ARMY,.... It is very probable that the people Eli inquired of told him there was a messenger come from the army, though they did not choose to r...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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? Ver. 16. _And I fled today out of the army._] I am an eyewi...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army. He was in a position to give authentic news. AND HE SAID, WHAT IS THERE DONE, MY SON? What news is there...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Death of Eli and of his Daughter-In-Law...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    IS THERE DONE: _ Heb._ is the thing...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Samuel 4:16 man H376 said H559 (H8799) Eli H5941 came H935 (H8802) battle H4634 fled H5127 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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 o...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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 expectati...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 3:6; 2 Samuel 1:4; Joshua 7:19...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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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