1 Samuel 4:1

Plain English Version

That’s the way Samuel talked to all the Israel mob. At that time, a lot of soldiers from Philistia came together to fight the Israel mob. The Israel mob camped near a place called Ebenezer. The Philistia mob camped near a place called Afek.

Cross References

1 Samuel 3:11

Then God said to him, “I will do something different in this place. After the Israel mob hear it, they will be shocked.

1 Samuel 4:2

The 2 armies met in the middle for a big fight. The Philistia mob killed dead lots of the Israel mob. 4,000 of them died.

1 Samuel 5:1

So the Philistia mob stole God’s special box. They took it from Ebenezer to a town called Ashdod, in Philistia country.

1 Samuel 7:12

The Philistia mob ran away and went home. Then Samuel got a big stone, and stood it up half-way between 2 places, Mizpah and Shen, so that everybody will remember the things that happened. And he said, “God was helping us.” So he called the stone Ebenezer. That name means stone that belongs to the one that helps us. The Philistia mob sat quiet for a long time. They didn’t come back to the Israel mob’s country. So God saved them from the Philistia mob for a long time, until Samuel became an old man. (We have not yet translated 7:14-17.)