1 Samuel 4:3

Good News Translation

When the survivors came back to camp, the leaders of Israel said, “Why did the Lord let the Philistines defeat us today? Let's go and bring the Lord's Covenant Box from Shiloh, so that he will go with us and save us from our enemies.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:25

Then the king said to Zadok, “Take the Covenant Box back to the city. If the Lord is pleased with me, some day he will let me come back to see it and the place where it stays.

1 Chronicles 17:1

King David was now living in his palace. One day he sent for the prophet Nathan and said to him, “Here I am living in a house built of cedar, but the Lord's Covenant Box is kept in a tent!”

Psalm 74:1

Why have you abandoned us like this, O God? Will you be angry with your own people forever?

Psalm 74:11

Why have you refused to help us? Why do you keep your hands behind you?

Isaiah 50:1

The Lord says, “Do you think I sent my people away like a man who divorces his wife? Where, then, are the papers of divorce? Do you think I sold you into captivity like a man who sells his children as slaves? No, you went away captive because of your sins; you were sent away because of your crimes.

Isaiah 58:3

The people ask, “Why should we fast if the Lord never notices? Why should we go without food if he pays no attention?” The Lord says to them, “The truth is that at the same time you fast, you pursue your own interests and oppress your workers.

Isaiah 59:1

Don't think that the Lord is too weak to save you or too deaf to hear your call for help!

Isaiah 59:2

It is because of your sins that he doesn't hear you. It is your sins that separate you from God when you try to worship him.

Jeremiah 3:16

Then when you have become numerous in that land, people will no longer talk about my Covenant Box. They will no longer think about it or remember it; they will not even need it, nor will they make another one.

Jeremiah 7:4

Stop believing those deceitful words, ‘We are safe! This is the Lord's Temple, this is the Lord's Temple, this is the Lord's Temple!’

Numbers 10:33

When the people left Sinai, the holy mountain, they traveled three days. The Lord's Covenant Box always went ahead of them to find a place for them to camp.

Numbers 10:35

Whenever the Covenant Box started out, Moses would say, “Arise, Lord; scatter your enemies and put to flight those who hate you!”

Numbers 31:6

Moses sent them to war under the command of Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, who took charge of the sacred objects and the trumpets for giving signals.

Deuteronomy 29:24

Then the whole world will ask, ‘Why did the Lord do this to their land? What was the reason for his fierce anger?’

Deuteronomy 31:26

“Take this book of God's Law and place it beside the Covenant Box of the Lord your God, so that it will remain there as a witness against his people.

2 Timothy 3:5

they will hold to the outward form of our religion, but reject its real power. Keep away from such people.

Hebrews 9:4

In it were the gold altar for the burning of incense and the Covenant Box all covered with gold and containing the gold jar with the manna in it, Aaron's stick that had sprouted leaves, and the two stone tablets with the commandments written on them.

Joshua 4:7

you will tell them that the water of the Jordan stopped flowing when the Lord's Covenant Box crossed the river. These stones will always remind the people of Israel of what happened here.”

Joshua 6:6

Joshua called the priests and told them, “Take the Covenant Box, and seven of you go in front of it, carrying trumpets.”

Joshua 7:7

And Joshua said, “Sovereign Lord! Why did you bring us across the Jordan at all? To turn us over to the Amorites? To destroy us? Why didn't we just stay on the other side of the Jordan?

Joshua 7:8

What can I say, O Lord, now that Israel has retreated from the enemy?

1 Peter 3:21

which was a symbol pointing to baptism, which now saves you. It is not the washing off of bodily dirt, but the promise made to God from a good conscience. It saves you through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Jude 1:5

For even though you know all this, I want to remind you of how the Lord once rescued the people of Israel from Egypt, but afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

1 Samuel 1:24

After she had weaned him, she took him to Shiloh, taking along a three-year-old bull, a bushel of flour, and a leather bag full of wine. She took Samuel, young as he was, to the house of the Lord at Shiloh.

1 Samuel 14:18

“Bring the ephod here,” Saul said to Ahijah the priest. (On that day Ahijah was carrying it in front of the people of Israel.)

1 Samuel 4:2

The Philistines attacked, and after fierce fighting they defeated the Israelites and killed about four thousand men on the battlefield.