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The Holy Bible in Modern English. Revised Edition.
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Ferrar Fentons 'Holy Bible in Modern English. All spelling, punctuation and formatting maintained through-out. Verse ordering follows the King James version for clarity and necessary organization of the verses.

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RF SA1 4:1 And the word of Samuel penetrated all Israel.
(B.C. 1140.) Israel rises under him as Teacher to Fight the Philistines.
Afterwards Israel went to meet the Philistines in war, and encamped at Ebenezer, and the Philistines encamped in Afak.
RF SA1 4:2 Then the Philistines disposed themselves to meet Israel, and opened out to the battle, and Israel was routed before the Philistines, and they slew in the open field about four thousand men.
RF SA1 4:3 So when the army returned to the Camp, the Judges of Israel asked, "Why has the EVER-LIVING routed us before the Philistines to-day? Let us take the Ark of the EVER-LIVING with us from Shiloh and go to oppose them, and it will save us from the clutch of our enemies."
RF SA1 4:4 (B.C. 1140.) The Army Defeated and sends for the Ark to the Camp.
The army therefore sent to Shiloh, and brought the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD of HOSTS, Who rests between Kerubim, from there. But the two sons of Eli, Khofni and Finehas, went with the Ark of the Covenant of GOD;
RF SA1 4:5 and when the Ark of the Covenant of the EVER-LIVING came to the Camp, and the Children of Israel saw it, they shouted aloud so that the earth shook;
RF SA1 4:6 and the Philistines heard the sound of the shouting, and asked, "What is the noise of this great shouting in the camp of the Hebrews?"1 and they were informed that the Ark of the EVER-LIVING had come to the camp.
RF SA1 4:7 The Philistines fear its Arrival, but Fight and Capture it.
Then the Philistines were afraid, for they said, "GOD has come to their camp," and exclaimed, "Woe to us!
RF SA1 4:8 Who can deliver us from the hand of this splendid GOD of theirs? The GOD who defeated the Mitzerites with such a total defeat in the desert?
RF SA1 4:9 Let us harden ourselves, and be men, Philistines, for fear they should enslave you as you enslaved them. So be men and warriors!"
RF SA1 4:10 Israel again Defeated. Eli's Tragic Death.
The Philistines consequently fought and routed the Israelites, and each man fled to his home, for the defeat was very great. There fell also thirty thousand regular troops of Israel,
RF SA1 4:11 and the Ark of GOD was captured, and the two sons of Eli—Khofni and Finehas—were killed.
RF SA1 4:12 But a man of Benjamin fled from the battle and came to Shiloh on the same day, with his clothes torn and earth on his head,
RF SA1 4:13 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.
RF SA1 4:14 When Eli heard the sound of wailing he asked, "What means this noise in the crowd?" So the man hastened and came and told it to Eli.
RF SA1 4:15 Now Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes were fixed, so that he was not able to see.
RF SA1 4:16 So the man said, "I have come from the battlefield. I have fled from the battlefield to-day." Then He asked, "What was the result, my son?"
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1. V. 6. "Eberim." if translated, means "Colonists"; a fit term to be used by the Philistines of the Israelites, who were really Colonists in Palestine.—F.F.
RF SA1 4:17 When the reporter answered and said, "Israel has fled before the Philistines; and there is a great panic on the army; and your two sons are killed,—Khofni and Finehas;—and the Ark of GOD has been captured!"
RF SA1 4:18 But when the Ark of 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.
RF SA1 4:19 (B.C. 1140.) Tragic Death of Finehas's 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.
RF SA1 4:20 But at the moment of her death the attendants who stood by her said, "Never mind, for you have borne a son!" She answered not,—for her heart moved not.
RF SA1 4:21 They consequently called the lad "Ai-kabod," 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.
RF SA1 4:22 Therefore they wailed;
"Gone is the glory of Israel.
For the Ark of GOD has been captured!"




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AKJV ROM 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?



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