2And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.
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Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. …
Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance. …
And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water. …
For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)The first words of this paragraph, which relate to Samuel, that his word came to all Israel , seem not to have any reference to the following story, as if it was by any direction of his that the Israelites went out against the Philistines. Had they consulted him, though but newly initiated as a prophet, his counsel might have stood them in more stead than the presence of the ark did; but perhaps t…
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