1 Samuel 4:1
And what Samuel had said happened to all Israel. And Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Eben-ezer; and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.
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Deuteronomy 29:10Ye stand this day all of you before Jehovah your God: your chiefs [of] your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,
Joshua 15:53and Janum, and Beth-Tappuah, and Aphekah,
1 Samuel 3:11And Jehovah said to Samuel, Behold, I do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.
1 Samuel 7:12And Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, and said, Hitherto Jehovah has helped us.
1 Samuel 29:1And the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek; and Israel encamped by the spring that is in Jizreel.
1 Kings 20:30And the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men of them that were left. And Ben-Hadad fled, and came into the city, [from] chamber to chamber.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 4:1
The predictions in the foregoing chapters concerning the ruin of Eli's house here begin to be fulfilled; how long after does not appear, but certainly not long. Such sinners God often makes quick work with. Here is, I. The disgrace and loss Israel sustained in an encounter with the Philistines, ver. 1, 2 . II. Their foolish project to fortify themselves by bringing the ark of God into their camp upon the shoulders of Hophni and Phinehas ( ver. 3, 4 ), which made them secure ( ver. 5 ) and struck a fear into the… Read the whole commentary →