1 Samuel 4:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁷ the Philistines were afraid; for they said, “A god has come into the camp.” And they said, “Woe to us! For nothing like this has happened before.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a thing heretofore.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ The Philistines were afraid, for they said, God has come into the camp. And they said, Woe to us! For such a thing has not happened before.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a thing heretofore.

Common English Bible

⁷ the Philistines were afraid and said, “A god has come into that camp! We’re doomed,” they said, “because nothing like this has ever happened before.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ And the Philistines were afraid, saying, "God has entered into the camp." And they groaned, saying:

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ And the Philistines were afraid, saying: God is come into the camp. And sighing, they said:

1 Samuel 4:7 Cross References

Exodus 14:14

The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be still.”

Exodus 14:25

clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily; and the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel; for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.”

Deuteronomy 32:30

How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had given them up?

1 Samuel 4:6

And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shouting, they said, “What does this great shouting in the camp of the Hebrews mean?” And when they learned that the ark of the Lord had come to the camp,

1 Samuel 4:8

Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the power of these mighty gods? These are the gods who smote the Egyptians with every sort of plague in the wilderness.