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1 Samuel 4:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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.

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The Philistines  brought all their military units together at Aphek  while Israel was camped by the spring in Jezreel.


Afterwards, Samuel took a stone and set it upright  between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer,  explaining, ‘The Lord has helped us to this point.’


After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer  to Ashdod,


The ones who remained fled into the city of Aphek, and the wall fell on those twenty-seven thousand remaining men. Ben-hadad also fled and went into an inner room  in the city.


The Lord said to Samuel, ‘I am about to do something in Israel that will cause everyone who hears about it to shudder.  ,


Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob #– #twenty-two cities, with their settlements.


Janim, Beth-tappuah, Aphekah,


the king of Aphek one the king of Lasharon one


in the south; all the land of the Canaanites, from Arah of the Sidonians to Aphek and as far as the border of the Amorites;


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.


‘All of you are standing today before the Lord your God #– #your leaders, tribes, elders, officials, all the men of Israel,


But today you have rejected your God,  who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions. You said to him, “You  must set a king over us.”  Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and clans.’


In the spring, Ben-hadad mobilised the Arameans and went up to Aphek  to battle Israel.





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