seekeroftruth
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1 Samuel 4:12 That same day a Benjamite ran from the battle line and went to Shiloh with his clothes torn and dust on his head. 13 When he arrived, there was Eli sitting on his chair by the side of the road, watching, because his heart feared for the ark of God. When the man entered the town and told what had happened, the whole town sent up a cry.
14 Eli heard the outcry and asked, “What is the meaning of this uproar?”
The man hurried over to Eli, 15 who was ninety-eight years old and whose eyes had failed so that he could not see. 16 He told Eli, “I have just come from the battle line; I fled from it this very day.”
Eli asked, “What happened, my son?”
17 The man who brought the news replied, “Israel fled before the Philistines, and the army has suffered heavy losses. Also your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”
18 When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward off his chair by the side of the gate. His neck was broken and he died, for he was an old man, and he was heavy. He had led(b) Israel forty years.
19 His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and near the time of delivery. When she heard the news that the ark of God had been captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she went into labor and gave birth, but was overcome by her labor pains. 20 As she was dying, the women attending her said, “Don’t despair; you have given birth to a son.” But she did not respond or pay any attention.
21 She named the boy Ichabod,[c] saying, “The Glory has departed from Israel”—because of the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband. 22 She said, “The Glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured.”
14 Eli heard the outcry and asked, “What is the meaning of this uproar?”
The man hurried over to Eli, 15 who was ninety-eight years old and whose eyes had failed so that he could not see. 16 He told Eli, “I have just come from the battle line; I fled from it this very day.”
Eli asked, “What happened, my son?”
17 The man who brought the news replied, “Israel fled before the Philistines, and the army has suffered heavy losses. Also your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”
18 When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward off his chair by the side of the gate. His neck was broken and he died, for he was an old man, and he was heavy. He had led(b) Israel forty years.
19 His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and near the time of delivery. When she heard the news that the ark of God had been captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she went into labor and gave birth, but was overcome by her labor pains. 20 As she was dying, the women attending her said, “Don’t despair; you have given birth to a son.” But she did not respond or pay any attention.
21 She named the boy Ichabod,[c] saying, “The Glory has departed from Israel”—because of the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband. 22 She said, “The Glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured.”
b. 1 Samuel 4:18 Traditionally judged
c. 1 Samuel 4:21 Ichabod means no glory.
Wow... Eli and his sons are now all dead.
Eli fell off a chair and broke his neck and died. Let me tell you, I know some old people. I live in a 55+ community. There are lots of people in their nineties in my community. I would be shocked if any of them fell off their chair and broke their neck.
Now Eli's grandchild, Ichabod, will be an orphan. His mom was dead. His dad, his uncle, and his granddad are all dead. He's in a pickle and .
And the Ark is in the hands of the Philistines.
Wow.... horrible day!
This is from the easy English site.
The man who brought the message ran at least 32 kilometres (20 miles) to Shiloh. The battle was in the flat valley but Shiloh was in the mountains. So most of the way he ran up hills. ‘He had torn his clothes and put dust on his head’. Israelite people behaved in this way when they were very, very sad. Eli was waiting for news from the battle. It was dangerous to take the ark into the battle. God had not told them to do it. Eli was worried about the ark of God. Everyone knew that the man of Benjamin had bad news. But Eli was blind so he could not see the man. But he heard the people crying.
The wife of Phinehas had a shock at the bad news. She was very sad that the Philistines stole the ark. The birth of a son is good news. She should have been happy. But she thought more about the ark of God than about her son. She would not talk to the women who helped her. She believed that God had gone from Israel too. So she called her son ‘Ichabod’. His name means ‘no glory’. The glory of God shows that God is present. Glory is the power and greatness of God. The wife of Phinehas died after her baby was born. Another person in Eli’s family had now died when they were young. The Bible does not tell us anything about Ichabod’s life.
The Philistines probably ruined Shiloh after they won the battle. Also, they probably destroyed the house of the Lord. The ark of God never went back to Shiloh. So Shiloh was no longer an important place where people worshipped God.
The Philistines probably ruined Shiloh after they won the battle. Also, they probably destroyed the house of the Lord. The ark of God never went back to Shiloh. So Shiloh was no longer an important place where people worshipped God.
The Ark is in the hands of the Philistines.
I found this at a site named jewishvirtuallibrary.org.
Though the definite origins of the word Palestine have been debated for years and are still not known for sure, the name is believed to be derived from the Egyptian and Hebrew word peleshet. Roughly translated to mean rolling or migratory, the term was used to describe the inhabitants of the land to the northeast of Egypt - the Philistines. The Philistines were an Aegean people - more closely related to the Greeks and with no connection ethnically, linguisticly or historically with Arabia - who conquered in the 12th Century BCE the Mediterranean coastal plain that is now Israel and Gaza.
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