1 Samuel 4:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

² The Philistines lined up in battle formation against Israel, and as the battle intensified, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who struck down about four thousand men on the battlefield.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² The Philistines drew up against Israel, and when the battle spread, Israel was smitten by the Philistines, who slew about 4,000 men on the battlefield.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines; and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.

Common English Bible

² The Philistines readied themselves to fight Israel. When the battle was joined, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men on the battlefield.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² and they positioned their troops against Israel. Then, when the conflict began, Israel turned his back to the Philistines. And they were cut down in that conflict, in various places in the fields, about four thousand men.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And put their army in array against Israel. And when they had joined battle, Israel turned their backs to the Philistines. And there was slain in that fight here and there in the fields about four thousand men.

1 Samuel 4:2 Cross References

Lamentations 3:40

Let’s examine and probe our ways, and turn back to the  Lord.

Leviticus 26:37

They will stumble over one another as if fleeing from a sword though no one is pursuing them. You will not be able to stand against your enemies.

Numbers 14:45

Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that part of the hill country came down, attacked them, and routed them as far as Hormah.

Joshua 7:12

This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs and run from their enemies, because they have been set apart for destruction.  I will no longer be with you unless you remove from among you what is set apart.

1 Samuel 17:21

Israel and the Philistines lined up in battle formation facing each other.

1 Samuel 17:8

He stood and shouted to the Israelite battle formations, ‘Why do you come out to line up in battle formation? ’ He asked them, ‘Am I not a Philistine and are you not servants of Saul?  Choose one of your men and make him come down against me.

1 Samuel 4:1

And Samuel’s words came to all Israel. Israel went out to meet the Philistines in battle and  camped at Ebenezer  while the Philistines camped at Aphek.

1 Samuel 4:10

So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated,  and each man fled to his tent.  The slaughter was severe #– #thirty thousand of the Israelite foot soldiers fell.

1 Samuel 4:3

When the troops returned to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, ‘Why did the Lord defeat us today before the Philistines?  Let’s bring the ark of the Lord’s covenant from Shiloh. Then it  will go with us and save us from our enemies.’