And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord came into the camp, all Israel shouted so loudly that the earth shook. Now when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, “What does the sound of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?” Then they understood that the ark of the Lord had come into the camp. So the Philistines were afraid, for they said, “God has come into the camp!” And they said, (A)“Woe to us! For such a thing has never happened before.

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When the ark of the Lord’s covenant came into the camp, all Israel raised such a great shout(A) that the ground shook. Hearing the uproar, the Philistines asked, “What’s all this shouting in the Hebrew(B) camp?”

When they learned that the ark of the Lord had come into the camp, the Philistines were afraid.(C) “A god has[a] come into the camp,” they said. “Oh no! Nothing like this has happened before.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 4:7 Or “Gods have (see Septuagint)