1 Samuel 4:2

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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.

Cross References

Lamentations 3:40

Let us test and examine our ways, and let us return to the Lord!

Leviticus 26:37

They shall stumble over one another as if to escape a sword when no one pursues them; and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

Numbers 14:45

Then the Amalekites came down and the Canaanites who dwelt in that hill country and smote the Israelites and beat them back, even as far as Hormah.

Joshua 7:12

That is why the Israelites could not stand before their enemies, but fled before them; they are accursed and have become devoted [for destruction]. I will cease to be with you unless you destroy the accursed [devoted] things among you.

1 Samuel 17:21

And Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.

1 Samuel 17:8

Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me.

1 Samuel 4:1

AND THE word of [the Lord through] Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out to battle against the Philistines and encamped beside Ebenezer; the Philistines encamped at Aphek.

1 Samuel 4:10

And the Philistines fought; Israel was smitten and they fled every man to his own home. There was a very great slaughter; for 30,000 foot soldiers of Israel fell.

1 Samuel 4:3

When the troops had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Why has the Lord smitten us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord here from Shiloh, that He may come among us and save us from the power of our enemies.