1 Samuel 4:3

New American Bible - revised edition

When the troops retired to the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has the Lord permitted us to be defeated today by the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the Lord from Shiloh that it may go into battle among us and save us from the grasp of our enemies.” Loss of the Ark.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:25

Then the king said to Zadok: “Take the ark of God back to the city. If I find favor with the Lord, he will bring me back and permit me to see it and its lodging place.

1 Chronicles 17:1

After David had taken up residence in his house, he said to Nathan the prophet, “See, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under tentcloth.”

Psalm 74:1

A maskil of Asaph. Why, God, have you cast us off forever? Why does your anger burn against the sheep of your pasture?

Psalm 74:11

Why draw back your hand, why hold back your right hand within your bosom?

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the Lord: Where is the bill of divorce with which I dismissed your mother? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? It was for your sins you were sold, for your rebellions your mother was dismissed.

Isaiah 58:3

“Why do we fast, but you do not see it? afflict ourselves, but you take no note?” See, on your fast day you carry out your own pursuits, and drive all your laborers.

Isaiah 59:1

No, the hand of the Lord is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear.

Isaiah 59:2

Rather, it is your crimes that separate you from your God, It is your sins that make him hide his face so that he does not hear you.

Jeremiah 3:16

When you increase in number and are fruitful in the land— oracle of the Lord— They will in those days no longer say, “The ark of the covenant of the Lord!” They will no longer think of it, or remember it, or miss it, or make another one.

Jeremiah 7:4

Do not put your trust in these deceptive words: “The temple of the Lord! The temple of the Lord! The temple of the Lord!”

Numbers 10:33

From the mountain of the Lord they made a journey of three days, and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them for the three-day journey to seek out a resting place for them.

Numbers 10:35

Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Arise, O Lord, may your enemies be scattered, and may those who hate you flee before you.”

Numbers 31:6

Moses sent them out on the campaign, a thousand from each tribe, with Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest for the campaign, who had with him the sacred vessels and the trumpets for sounding the alarm.

Deuteronomy 29:24

And they will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he had made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,

Deuteronomy 31:26

Take this book of the law and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord, your God, that there it may be a witness against you.

2 Timothy 3:5

as they make a pretense of religion but deny its power. Reject them.

Hebrews 9:4

in which were the gold altar of incense and the ark of the covenant entirely covered with gold. In it were the gold jar containing the manna, the staff of Aaron that had sprouted, and the tablets of the covenant.

Joshua 4:7

you shall answer them, ‘The waters of the Jordan ceased to flow before the ark of the covenant of the Lord when it crossed the Jordan.’ Thus these stones are to serve as a perpetual memorial to the Israelites.”

Joshua 6:6

Summoning the priests, Joshua, son of Nun, said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant with seven of the priests carrying ram’s horns in front of the ark of the Lord.”

Joshua 7:7

“Alas, Lord God,” Joshua prayed, “why did you ever allow this people to cross over the Jordan, delivering us into the power of the Amorites, that they might destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell on the other side of the Jordan.

Joshua 7:8

Please, Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back to its enemies?

1 Peter 3:21

This prefigured baptism, which saves you now. It is not a removal of dirt from the body but an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Jude 1:5

I wish to remind you, although you know all things, that [the] Lord who once saved a people from the land of Egypt later destroyed those who did not believe.

1 Samuel 1:24

Once he was weaned, she brought him up with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine, and presented him at the house of the Lord in Shiloh.

1 Samuel 14:18

Saul then said to Ahijah, “Bring the ephod here.” (Ahijah was wearing the ephod before the Israelites at that time.)

1 Samuel 4:2

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.