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9 aBe strong and conduct yourselves like men, you Philistines, that you do not become servants of the Hebrews, bas they have been to you. Conduct yourselves like men, and fight!”  
10 So the Philistines fought, and aIsrael was 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 athe ark of God was captured; and bthe two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.  

Death of Eli

12 Then a man of Benjamin ran from the battle line the same day, and acame to Shiloh with his clothes torn and bdirt on his head.  
13 Now when he came, there was Eli, sitting on aa seat by the wayside watching, for his heart2 trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city and told it, all the city cried out.  
14 When Eli heard the noise of the outcry, he said, “What does the sound of this tumult mean?” And the man came quickly and told Eli.
15 Eli was ninety-eight years old, and ahis eyes were so dim that he could not see.  
16 Then the man said to Eli, “I am he who came from the battle. And I fled today from the battle line.” And he said, a“What happened, my son?”  
17 So the messenger answered and said, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people. Also your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead; and the ark of God has been captured.”
18 Then it happened, when he made mention of the ark of God, that Eli fell off the seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck was broken and he died, for the man was old and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

Ichabod

19 Now his daughter-in-law, Phinehas’s wife, was with child, due to be delivered; and when she heard the news that the ark of God was captured, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and gave birth, for her labor pains came upon her.
20 And about the time of her death athe women who stood by her said to her, “Do not fear, for you have borne a son.” But she did not answer, nor did she1 regard it.  
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John Wesley's Notes
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1 Samuel 4:11

The ark - Which God justly and wisely permitted, to punish the Israelites for their profanation of it; that by taking away the pretences of their foolish confidence, he might more deeply humble them, and bring them to true - repentance: and that the Philistines might by this means he more effectually convinced of God's almighty power, and of their own, and the impotency of their gods, and so a stop put to their triumphs and rage against the poor Israelites. Thus as God was no loser by this event, so the Philistines were no gainers by it; and Israel, all things considered, received more good than hurt by it. If Eli had done his duty, and put them from the priesthood, they might have lived, tho' in disgrace. But now God takes the work into his own hands, and chases them out of the world by the sword of the Philistines.




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