1 Samuel 4:17 BSB — MannaFest

1 Samuel 4:17

The messenger answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”

BSB

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ASV

And he that brought the tidings answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.

KJV

And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

And the messenger answered - Never was a more afflictive message, containing such a variety of woes, each rising above the preceding, delivered in so few words. 1. Israel is fled before the Philistines. This was a sore evil: that Israel should turn their backs upon their enemies, was bad; and that they should turn their backs on such enemies as the Philistines, was yet worse; for now they might expect the chains of their slavery to be strengthened and riveted more closely. 2. There hath also been a great slaughter among the people.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The calamities announced to Samuel as about to fall upon the family of Eli [1Sa 2:34] were now inflicted in the death of his two sons, and after his death, by that of his daughter-in-law, whose infant son received a name that perpetuated the fallen glory of the church and nation [1Sa 4:19-22]. The public disaster was completed by the capture of the ark.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיַּ֨עַן	vai.Ya.'an	and he answered	H6030 →
הַֽמְבַשֵּׂ֜ר	ham.va.Ser	the bearer of news	H1319 →
וַיֹּ֗אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
נָ֤ס	nas	it has fled	H5127 →
יִשְׂרָאֵל֙	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
לִפְנֵ֣י	lif.Nei	<to> before	H6440 →
פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים	fe.lish.Tim	[the] Philistines	H6430 →
וְגַ֛ם	ve.Gam	and also	H1571 →
מַגֵּפָ֥ה	ma.ge.Fah	a slaughter	H4046 →
גְדוֹלָ֖ה	ge.do.Lah	great	H1419 →
הָיְתָ֣ה	ha.ye.Tah	it has been	H1961 →
בָעָ֑ם	va.'Am	among the people	H5971 →
וְגַם־	ve.gam-	and also	H1571 →
שְׁנֵ֨י	she.Nei	[the] two	H8147 →
בָנֶ֜יךָ	va.Nei.kha	sons your	H1121 →
מֵ֗תוּ	Me.tu	they have died	H4191 →
חָפְנִי֙	cha.fe.Ni	Hophni	H2652 →
וּפִ֣ינְחָ֔ס	u.Fin.Chas	and Phinehas	H6372 →
וַאֲר֥וֹן	va.'a.Ron	and [the] ark of	H727 →
הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים	ha.'E.lo.Him	<the> God	H430 →
נִלְקָֽחָה׃ פ	nil.Ka.chah	it has been taken	H3947 →

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1 Samuel 3:11
Then the LORD said to Samuel, “I am about to do something in Israel at which the ears of all who hear it will tingle.
leads to
- Habakkuk 1:5
  “Look at the nations and observe—be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you.
- Jeremiah 19:3
  saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster…
- Acts 13:41
  ‘Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.’”
- 2 Kings 21:12
  this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah that the news will reverberate in the ears of all who hear it.
- Luke 21:26
  Men will faint from fear and anxiety over what is coming upon the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.