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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.
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And the ark of
God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Now Eli was ninety
and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.
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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?
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And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there
hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas,
are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And she named the child I-chabod, saying, The glory is departed
from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.
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And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.
CHAPTER SAMUEL 5
And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Eben-ezer unto Ashdod.
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When the
Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
3
And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon
was
fallen upon his face
to the earth before the ark of the L
ORD
. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
4
And
when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon
was
fallen upon his face to the ground
before the ark of the L
ORD
; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands
were
cut off
upon the threshold; only
the stump of
Dagon was left to him.
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Therefore neither the priests of
Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon’s house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this
day.
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But the hand of the L
ORD
was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote
them with emerods,
even
Ashdod and the coasts thereof.
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And when the men of Ashdod saw that
it was
so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon
us, and upon Dagon our god.
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They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto
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