I Samuel - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 280

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6 {hat thc earth shock; and the Philis- tines heard the sound ofthe shouting, What is the noise of this great shouting in the camp of 1 and they were informed that the Ark of the EVER- L1v1NG had come to the camp. Wl]: Qbiliziinzs fear its 3rriim1, but §igI;t mth ®rq:h11·2 it. 7 Then the Philistines were afraid. Gon has come to Woe

8 to us! Who can deliver us from the hand of this splendid Gon of theirs? The Gon who defeated the Mitzerites with such a total defeat in the desert?

9 Let us harden ourselves, and be men, Philistines, for fear they should enslave you as you enslaved them. S0 be men and warriors! dsrnzl again @efcni2h. ··®1i’¤ ®ragi: II I2 Emil;. The Philistines consequently

fought and routed the Israelites, and each man tied to his home, for the defeat was very great. There fell also thirty thousand regular troops of Israel, and the Ark of GOD was captured, and the two sons of Eli Khofni and Finehas-—were killed. But a man of Benjamin tied from the battle and came to Shiloh on the same day, with his clothes torn and earth on his head, and when he arrived Eli was sitting on his chair beside the road to Mitzphah, for his heart was was troubled about the Ark of GOD, and the man came to report to the town, and he called to all the village.

14 When Eli heard the sound of wailing What means this noise in So the man hastened and came and told it to Eli. 15 Now Eli was ninety~eight years old, and his eyes were fixed, so that he

16 was not able to see. So the man I have come from the battle- field. I have tied from the battle- field to-day! What was the result, my son ?’ 17 When the reporter answered and Israel has fled before the

; a t term to be used by the Philistines of the Israelites, who were really Colonists in Palestine-?. F. Philistines; and there is a great panic on the army; and your two sons are killed,——Khofni and Fine- has;·——and the Ark of Gob has been But when the Ark of Gon was mentioned, he fell off the chair backwards towards the side of the gate, and broke his neck, for he was an old man and heavy. He had ruled in Israel forty years. (BH3. 1140) drzzgfz Quit}; uf $in2}Ja¤’¤ wife. The wife of Finehas was near

being delivered of a child when she heard the report of the capture of the Ark of GOD, and of the death of her father-in-law and husband, and she fell down and brought forth, for her grief overwhelmed her. But at the moment of her death the attendants Never mind, She answered not,s··~for her heart moved not. They consequently called the meaning that the glory has gone from Israel by the capture of the Ark of GOD, and the death of her father-in—law and her husband. Therefore they wailed ; ‘ Gone is the glory of Israel. 18 22 For the Ark of GGD has been captured ! ' (ac. 1:40.) @132 §!;ilistin2¤ bring ily: §rIt in tbz Uizmplz uf Qagmr, tubes: Shui is mst nuttin. When the Philistines had captured 5 the Ark of GOD, they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod, and then the 2 Philistines took it to the Temple of Dagon, and set it beside Dagon; but 3 when the Ashdodites arose on the morrow they saw Dagon had fallen on his face to the earth before the Ark, and the head of Dagon, and the 4 two palms of his hands cut off at the wrists, were on the threshold. Only a stump of Dagon was left to himself, consequently the priest of Dagon, 5 and all who enter the Temple of Dagon, step over the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day. hffliciimt fulluins the Qiapiurch girl:. Then the hand of the EvER~

LIVING was heavy upon the Ash· dodites, and He desolated them, and afflicted them with tumours in their extremities. T he people of Ashdod consequently were terrified and said, 280