1 Samuel 4:1-2

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1 Samuel 4:1-2 New King James Version (NKJV)

The Death of Eli

4 And the word of Samuel came to all ^[a]Israel.

The Ark of God Captured

Now Israel went out to battle against the Philistines, and encamped beside Ebenezer; and the Philistines encamped in Aphek. ²Then the Philistines put themselves in battle array against Israel. And when they joined battle, Israel was ^[b]defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men of the army in the field.

Footnotes:

1 Samuel 4:1 So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Vg. add And it came to pass in those days that the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight; LXX adds further against Israel
1 Samuel 4:2 Lit. struck