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1 Samuel 4:1

New American Bible - revised edition

At that time, the Philistines gathered for an attack on Israel. Israel went out to engage them in battle and camped at Ebenezer, while the Philistines camped at Aphek.

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Now the Philistines had mustered all their forces in Aphek, and the Israelites were encamped at the spring in Jezreel.

Samuel then took a stone and placed it between Mizpah and Jeshanah; he named it Ebenezer, explaining, “As far as this place the Lord has been our help.”

The Philistines, having captured the ark of God, transferred it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

The survivors fled into the city of Aphek, where the wall collapsed on twenty-seven thousand of them. Ben-hadad, too, fled, and took refuge within the city, in an inner room.

The Lord said to Samuel: I am about to do something in Israel that will make the ears of everyone who hears it ring.

Ummah, Acco, Aphek, and Rehob, there were twenty-two cities and their villages.

Janim, Beth-tappuah, Aphekah,

the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;

also where the Avvim are in the south; all the land of the Canaanites from Mearah of the Sidonians to Aphek, and the boundaries of the Amorites;

The Philistines then drew up in battle formation against Israel. After a fierce struggle Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men on the battlefield.

The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,

your children, your wives, and the resident alien who lives in your camp, from those who cut wood to those who draw water for you—

But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your evils and calamities, by saying, ‘No! You must appoint a king over us.’ Now, therefore, take your stand before the Lord according to your tribes and families.”

At the turning of the year, Ben-hadad mustered Aram and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.




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