1 Samuel 4:9-11
Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
9 Show some courage and be men, Philistines!(A) Otherwise, you’ll serve the Hebrews just as they served you.(B) Now be men and fight! ’
10 So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated,(C) and each man fled to his tent.(D) The slaughter was severe – thirty thousand of the Israelite foot soldiers fell. 11 The ark of God was captured, and Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.(E)
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1 Samuel 4:9-11
New King James Version
9 (A)Be strong and conduct yourselves like men, you Philistines, that you do not become servants of the Hebrews, (B)as they have been to you. [a]Conduct yourselves like men, and fight!”
10 So the Philistines fought, and (C)Israel was [b]defeated, and every man fled to his tent. There was a very great slaughter, and there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers. 11 Also (D)the ark of God was captured; and (E)the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.
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- 1 Samuel 4:9 Lit. Be men
- 1 Samuel 4:10 Lit. struck down
1 Samuel 4:9-11
King James Version
9 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.
10 And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
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