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SAMUEL

OPEN BIBLE TO 1 SAMUEL 4

ELI

PROPHET

GOD

HANNAH

WORD OF GOD

PHILISTINES CAPTURE THE ARK

PHILISTINES

CAPTURE THE ARK

ISRAELITES WENT TO FIGHT AGAINST PHILISTINES.ISRAELITES CAMPED AT EBENEZER AND PHILISTINES AT APHEK.SO AT THE WAR,ISRAELITES WERE DEFEATED BY PHILISTINES.WHEN SOLDIERS CAME BACK,ELDERS OF ISRAEL SAID THAT THEY MUST BRING ARK OF LORD'S COVENANT FROM SHILOH,SO THAT HE MAY GO WITH THEM AND SAVE THEM.

SO THEY BROUGHT THE ARK AND ELI'S 2 SONS WERE THERE WITH ARK OF GOD.WHEN IT CAME TO THE CAMP,ALL ISRAEL RAISED A GREAT SHOUT AND GROUND ALSO SHOOK.HEARING THIS,PHILISTINES ASKED WHAT IS HAPPENING AND ONCE THEY CAME TO KNOW THIS,THEY GOT AFRAID.EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE AFRAID,THEY KEPT ENCOURAGING TO BE MEN AND FIGHT.

SO PHILISTINES FOUGHT AND ISRAELITES WERE DEFEATED AND THE MEN FLED TO THEIR TENT.ISRAEL LOST 30,000 FOOT SOLDIERS AND ALSO THE ARK OF GOD WAS CAPTURED.ELI'S 2 SONS ALSO DIED.

DEATH OF ELI

THAT SAME DAY,BENJAMIN RAN FROM BATTLE LINE AND WENT TO SHILOH WITH HIS CLOTHES TORN AND DUST ON HIS HEAD.WHEN HE ARRIVED,ELI WAS SITTING ON THE CHAIR,WATCHING BECAUSE HIS HEART FEARED FOR ARK OF GOD.WHEN WHOLE TOWN CAME TO KNOW WHAT HAD HAPPENED,THEY BEGAN CRYING.ELI DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT HAD HAPPENED SO HE ASKED.THE MAN REPLIED SAYING THAT ARMY HAD SUFFERED HUGE LOSS AND ALSO ELI'S SONS ARE DEAD AND ARK OF GOD HAS BEEN CAPTURED.WHEN MAN MENTIONED ARK OF GOD,ELI FELL OFF HIS CHAIR AND HIS NECK BROKE,LEADING TO HIS DEATH.HE DIED AT AGE OF 98 AND HE JUDGED ISRAEL FOR 40 YEARS

ELI'S DAUGHTER-IN-LAW,WIFE OF PHINEHAS WAS PREGNANT AND NEAR THE TIME OF DELIVARY,WHEN SHE HEARD THE NEWS,SHE WENT INTO LABOR AND GAVE BIRTH,BUT WAS OVERCOME BY HER LABOR PAINS AND AS SHE WAS DYING,WOMAN ATTENDING HER SAID THAT SHE GAVE BIRTH TO A SON BUT SHE IGNORED IT AND NAMED HIM ICHABOD(NO GLORY) AS ALL DISASTERS IN HER LIFE HAD HAPPENED AND GLORY OF ISRAEL HAD GONE AS THE ARK OF GOD HAS BEEN CAPTURED.

QUESTIONS

1)WHO IS THE SON OF PHINEHAS AND WHAT IS THE MEANING OF HIS NAME?

2)HAS THE COVENANT OF GOD THAT WAS OF ELI'S ENTIRE FAMILY DESTRUCTION COME TRUE?HOW?

3)WHERE DID THE ISRAELITES AND THE PHILISTINES CAMP FOR THE WAR?

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