1 Samuel 4:2 - Modern King James Version

And the Philistines put themselves in order against Israel. And the battle was joined. And Israel was beaten before the Philistines. And they killed about four thousand men of the army in the field.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

The Philistines drew up against Israel, and when the battle spread, Israel was smitten by the Philistines, who slew about 4,000 men on the battlefield.

American Standard Version (1901)

And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines; and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.

Common English Bible

The Philistines readied themselves to fight Israel. When the battle was joined, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men on the battlefield.

Catholic Public Domain Version

and they positioned their troops against Israel. Then, when the conflict began, Israel turned his back to the Philistines. And they were cut down in that conflict, in various places in the fields, about four thousand men.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And put their army in array against Israel. And when they had joined battle, Israel turned their backs to the Philistines. And there was slain in that fight here and there in the fields about four thousand men.

1 Samuel 4:2 Tagairtí Cros

Lamentations 3:40

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.

Leviticus 26:37

And they shall fall on one another, as if it were before a sword, when none pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

Numbers 14:45

And the Amalekites and the Canaanites who were living in that mountain came down and struck them, and beat them down, to Hormah.

Joshua 7:12

And the sons of Israel could not stand before their enemies. They will turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become cursed. I will not be with you again, unless you destroy the one who is cursed from among you.

1 Samuel 17:21

For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in order, rank to rank.

1 Samuel 17:8

And he stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, Why have you come out to set your battle in order? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants to Saul? Choose a man for you, and let him come down to me.

1 Samuel 4:1

And the word of Samuel was revealed to all Israel. And Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Ebenezer. And the Philistines pitched in Aphek.

1 Samuel 4:10

And the Philistines fought, and Israel was beaten, and each one of them fled into his tent. And there was a very great slaughter, for there fell thirty thousand footmen of Israel.

1 Samuel 4:3

And when the people had come to the camp, the elders of Israel said, Why has Jehovah beaten us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of Shiloh to us, so that when it comes among us it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.