1 Samuel study chapter

1 Samuel 4

c. 1080 BCThe Philistines defeat Israel and capture the ark; Eli and his sons die, and the glory departs (Ichabod).

War breaks out with the Philistines, and after a defeat Israel superstitiously carries the ark into battle as a talisman. The Philistines rout them, slaughter thirty thousand, and capture the ark; Hophni and Phinehas die that day. When Eli hears, he falls and breaks his neck, and the wife of Phinehas, dying in childbirth, names her son Ichabod, “the glory has departed from Israel.”

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