1 Samuel 4:3 BSB — MannaFest

1 Samuel 4:3

When the troops returned to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why has the LORD brought defeat on us before the Philistines today? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Shiloh, so that it may go with us to save us from the hand of our enemies.”

BSB

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ASV

And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath Jehovah smitten us to-day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of Shiloh unto us, that it may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies.

KJV

And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the Lord smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

In the evening of the defeat of the Israelites the elders held a council, and resolved to send for the ark, which is described in full, as implying that in virtue of the covenant God could not but give them the victory (compare Num 10:35; Jos 3:10).

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The New Park Street Pulpit, Sermon No. 186: “The Form and Spirit of Religion” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1858)

THESE MEN made a great mistake: what they wanted was the Lord in their midst; whereas they imagined that the symbol of God’s presence, the ark of the covenant, would be amply sufficient to bestow upon them the assistance which they required in the day of battle. As is man, such must his religion be. Now, man is a compound being. To speak correctly, man is a spiritual being: he hath within him a soul, a substance far beyond the bounds of matter. But man is also made up of a body as well as a soul.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

In short, the shout raised in the Hebrew camp, on the arrival of the ark, indicated very plainly the prevalence among the Israelites at this time of a belief in national deities--whose influence was local, and whose interest was especially exerted in behalf of the people who adored them.

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Original language & word study

25 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיָּבֹ֣א	vai.ya.Vo'	and it came	H935 →
הָעָם֮	ha.'Am	the people	H5971 →
אֶל־	'el-	into	H413 →
הַֽמַּחֲנֶה֒	ha.ma.cha.Neh	the camp	H4264 →
וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙	vai.yo.me.Ru	and they said	H559 →
זִקְנֵ֣י	zik.Nei	[the] elders of	H2205 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
לָ֣מָּה	La.mah	<to> why?	H4100 →
נְגָפָ֧נוּ	ne.ga.Fa.nu	has he defeated us	H5062 →
יְהוָ֛ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
הַיּ֖וֹם	hai.Yom	this day	H3117 →
לִפְנֵ֣י	lif.Nei	<to> before	H6440 →
פְלִשְׁתִּ֑ים	fe.lish.Tim	[the] Philistines	H6430 →
נִקְחָ֧ה	nik.Chah	let us bring	H3947 →
אֵלֵ֣ינוּ	'e.Lei.nu	to ourselves	H413 →
מִשִּׁלֹ֗ה	mi.shi.Loh	from Shiloh	H7887 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
אֲרוֹן֙	'a.rOn	[the] ark of	H727 →
בְּרִ֣ית	be.Rit	[the] covenant of	H1285 →
יְהוָ֔ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
וְיָבֹ֣א	ve.ya.Vo'	so it may come	H935 →
בְקִרְבֵּ֔נוּ	ve.kir.Be.nu	in midst our	H7130 →
וְיֹשִׁעֵ֖נוּ	ve.yo.shi.'E.nu	so it may deliver us	H3467 →
מִכַּ֥ף	mi.Kaf	from [the] hand of	H3709 →
אֹיְבֵֽינוּ׃	'o.ye.Vei.nu	enemies our	H341 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Timothy 3:5
having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!
leads to
- Isaiah 29:13
  Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught…
- Titus 1:16
  They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
- Matthew 23:27–28
  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
- 1 Timothy 5:8
  If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
- Romans 2:20–24
  an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—
Through
Numbers 10:35
Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Rise up, O LORD! May Your enemies be scattered; may those who hate You flee before You.”
leads to
- Psalms 68:1–2
  God arises. His enemies are scattered, and those who hate Him flee His presence.
- Isaiah 17:12–14
  Alas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters.
- Deuteronomy 7:10
  But those who hate Him He repays to their faces with destruction; He will not hesitate to repay to his face the one who hates Him.