And came to pass of Samuel to all Israel. And gathered together for war against Israel; and Israel went forth to meet them for war. And they camped at Ebenezer. And the Philistines camped in Aphek.
And deployed for war against Israel. And leaned one way and failed before the Philistines. And there was struck in the battle array in four thousand men.
And came into the camp. And said Why is it so devestated today before the Philistines? We should take to us the ark of the covenant of the lord from out of Shiloh, and let it come forth in our midst! and it will deliver us from of our enemies.
And sent unto Shiloh, and they lifted from there the ark of covenant of the lord of the forces, which sits upon the cherubim. And both the sons of Eli the ark of the covenant of God Hophni and Phinehas.
And it came to pass as came into the camp, that shouted aloud and resounded
And heard the sound of the cry. And they said, What is the sound of the cry this great one in the camp of the Hebrews? And they knew that the ark of the lord comes into the camp.
And feared and said, This their God comes to them into the camp.
Woe to us, rescue us, O Master, today! for it happened not thus yesterday third day before. Woe to us, who shall rescue us from out of gods These are the gods striking Egypt in every calamity, and in the wilderness.
Fortify, and become as men, O Philistines! so that you should not serve to the Hebrews, as they served us; and you shall be men and wage war against them.
And waged war against them; and failed before the Philistines, and fled unto his tent. And there came to pass calamity and there fell from Israel thirty thousand from the ranks.
And the ark of God was taken, and both the sons of Eli died Hophni and Phinehas.
And there ran a man of Benjamin from out of the battle array, and he came into Shiloh on that day; and his garments were torn up, and earth his head.
And he came. And behold, Eli sat upon his chair by the gate watching the way, for was receded on account of the ark of God. And the man entered into the city to report. And yelled out
And Eli heard the sound of the yelling, and said, What is sound And the man hastening, entered and reported to Eli.
And Eli was a son ninety and eight years old, and his eyes were weighed down, and he did not see.
And Eli said to the men, to the ones standing around him, What report of this sound? And the man hastening, came forward to Eli, and he said to him, I am the one having come from the camp, have fled from the battle array today. And Eli said, What taking place child?
And answered and said, fled from of the Philistines, and calamity has happened among the people, and both of your sons have died, and the ark of God was taken.
And it happened as was mentioned that he fell from the chair backwardly, being next to the gate, and was broken and he died, for was old and heavy; and he judged Israel forty years.
And his daughter-in-law, of Phinehas, having conceived to give birth, when she heard the message that was taken and that has died and her husband; that she wept and gave birth, for turned
And in the time she was going to die, that said Do not fear! for a son But she did not answer, and did not comprehend in her heart.
And she called the boy, Ichabod, for the ark of God, and for her father-in-law, and for her husband.