就害怕起来,说:“有神明到了他们营中,我们大祸临头了,我们从来没有遇过这种事情! 我们大祸临头了!谁能从这些大能的神明手中救我们?在旷野用各种灾祸毁灭埃及人的就是这些神明。 非利士人啊,要刚强,做大丈夫。不然,我们就会成为希伯来人的奴隶,像他们做我们的奴隶一样。我们要做大丈夫,奋力征战。”

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the Philistines were afraid.(A) “A god has[a] come into the camp,” they said. “Oh no! Nothing like this has happened before. We’re doomed! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? They are the gods who struck(B) the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues(C) in the wilderness. Be strong, Philistines! Be men, or you will be subject to the Hebrews, as they(D) have been to you. Be men, and fight!”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 4:7 Or “Gods have (see Septuagint)

And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a thing heretofore.

Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.

Be strong and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.

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