1; The Israelites are overcome by the Philistines at Ebenezer.
3; They fetch the ark unto the terror of the Philistines.
10; They are smitten again, the ark taken, and Hophni and
Phinehas are slain.
12; Eli at the news, falling backward, breaks his neck.
19; Phinehas's wife, discouraged in her travail with I-chabod,
dies.
* A.M. 2863. B.C. 1141. An. Ex. Is. 350. came. or, came to
pass. Heb. was.
# 3:11|
* Eben-ezer.
That is, the place afterwards so called: See the Parallel
Texts.
# 5:1; 7:12|
* Aphek.
This Aphek was situated in the tribe of Judah, and is probably
the same as Aphekah.
# Jos 15:53|
It must be carefully distinguished from that near Jezreel, and
another in Asher.
# 29:1; Jos 19:30; 1Ki 20:30|
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