1 Samuel 4 Cross References - MLV

¹ And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle and encamped beside Ebenezer and the Philistines encamped in Aphek. ² And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel. And when they joined battle, Israel was struck before the Philistines; and they killed of the army in the field about four thousand men.
³ And when the people came into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Why has Jehovah struck us today before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of Shiloh to us, that it may come among us and save us out of the hand of our enemies.
⁴ So the people sent to Shiloh and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah of hosts, who sits above the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God. ⁵ And when the ark of the covenant of Jehovah came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.
⁶ And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What is the meaning of the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of Jehovah came into the camp. ⁷ And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God has come into the camp. And they said, Woe to us! For there has not been such a thing yesterday and the day before. ⁸ Woe to us! Who will deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that killed* the Egyptians with all manner of plagues in the wilderness.
⁹ Be strong and strengthen yourselves like men, O you* Philistines, that you* are not servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you*. Conduct yourselves like men and fight. ¹⁰ And the Philistines fought and Israel was struck and they fled every man to 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 killed.
¹² And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn and with dirt upon his head. ¹³ And when he came behold, Eli was sitting upon his seat by the wayside watching, for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city and told it, all the city cried out. ¹⁴ And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What does the noise of this tumult mean? And the man hastened and came and told Eli.
¹⁵ Now Eli was ninety-eight years old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see. ¹⁶ And the man said to Eli, I am he who came out of the army and I fled today out of the army. And he said, How did the matter go, my son? ¹⁷ And he who brought the news answered and said, Israel has fled before the Philistines and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. And your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead and the ark of God is taken.
¹⁸ And it happened, when he made mention of the ark of God, that Eli fell from his seat backward by the side of the gate. And his neck broke and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.
¹⁹ And his daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered. And when she heard the news that the ark of God was taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and brought forth, for her pains came upon her. ²⁰ And about the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, Do not fear, for you have brought out a son. But she did not answer, neither did she regard it. ²¹ And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory has departed from Israel, because the ark of God was taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband. ²² And she said, The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God is taken.

¹⁸ the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lassharon, one;

⁵³ and Janim and Beth-tappuah and Aphekah,

³⁰ also Ummah and Aphek and Rehob; twenty-two cities with their villages.

¹¹ And Jehovah said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel at which both the ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.

¹ Now the Philistines had taken the ark of God and they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

¹² Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Jehovah has helped us to now.

¹ Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek and the Israelites encamped by the fountain which is in Jezreel.

³⁰ But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city and the wall fell upon twenty-seven thousand men who were left. And Ben-hadad fled and came into the city, into an inner chamber.

⁵ And the men of Ai killed* of them about thirty-six men. And they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim and killed* them at the descent. And the hearts of the people melted and became as water.
⁶ And Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of Jehovah until the evening, he and the elders of Israel and they put dust upon their heads.
⁷ And Joshua said, Alas, O lord Jehovah, why have you at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? Would that we had been content and dwelt beyond the Jordan! ⁸ Oh, Lord, what shall I say after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!

¹² Therefore the sons of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies because they have become accursed. I will not be with you* any more unless you* destroy what was set apart from among you*.

⁸ And he stood and cried out to the armies of Israel and said to them, Why have you* come out to set your* battle in array? Am I not a Philistine and you* servants to Saul? Choose you* a man for you* and let him come down to me.

²¹ And Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.

⁹ But now you have cast off and brought us to dishonor and do not go forth with our armies. ¹⁰ You make us to turn back from the adversary. And those who hate us take spoil for themselves.

⁷ Because they have devoured Jacob and laid waste his habitation.
⁸ Do not remember against us the iniquities of our forefathers. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, because we are brought very low.

⁴⁰ Therefore the wrath of Jehovah was kindled against his people and he detested his inheritance. ⁴¹ And he gave them into the hand of the nations. And those who hated them, ruled over them.

⁴⁰ Let us search and try our ways and turn again to Jehovah.

³³ And they set forward from the mountain of Jehovah three days' journey. And the ark of the covenant of Jehovah went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting-place for them.

³⁵ And it happened, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, O Jehovah and let your enemies be scattered and let those who hate you flee before you.

⁶ And Moses sent them, a thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

²⁴ even all the nations will say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? What is the meaning of the heat of this great anger?

²⁶ Take this book of the law and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your* God, that it may be there for a witness against you.

⁷ Then you* will say to them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah. When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. And these stones will be for a memorial to the sons of Israel everlasting.

⁴ And seven priests will bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark. And the seventh day you* will encompass the city seven times and the priests will blow the trumpets. ⁵ And it will be, that, when they make a prolonged blast with the ram's horn and when you* hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people will shout with a great shout. And the wall of the city will fall down flat and the people will go up every man straight before him.

⁷ And Joshua said, Alas, O lord Jehovah, why have you at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? Would that we had been content and dwelt beyond the Jordan!

¹⁸ And Saul said to Ahijah, Bring here the ark of God. For the ark of God was there at that time with the sons of Israel.

²⁵ And the king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city. If I will find favor in the eyes of Jehovah he will bring me again and show me both it and his habitation.

¹ And it happened, when David dwelt in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Jehovah dwells under curtains.

¹ O God, why have you cast off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?

¹¹ Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Remove it from the midst of your bosom.

¹¹ What to me is the multitude of your* sacrifices? says Jehovah. I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts. And I do not delight in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of male-goats. ¹² When you* come to appear before me, who has required this at your* hand–to trample my courts?
¹³ Bring no more vain oblations. Incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath, the calling of assemblies–I cannot bear wickedness and the solemn assembly. ¹⁴ Your* new moons and your* appointed feasts my soul hates. They are a trouble to me. I am weary of bearing them.
¹⁵ And when you* spread forth your* hands, I will hide my eyes from you*. Yes, when you* make many prayers, I will not hear; your* hands are full of blood.

¹ Jehovah says thus, Where is the document of your* mother's divorcement, with which I have put her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you*? Behold, for your* iniquities you* were sold and for your* transgressions your* mother was put away.

³ Why have we fasted, they say and you do not see? We have afflicted our soul and you take no knowledge. Behold, in the day of your* fast you* find pleasure and exact from all your* laborers.

¹⁶ And it will happen, when you* are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says Jehovah, they will no more say, The ark of the covenant of Jehovah, nor will it come to mind. Neither will they remember it, nor will they miss it. Neither will it be made any more.

⁴ Do not trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, are these.

⁸ Behold, you* trust in lying words, that cannot profit. ⁹ Will you* steal, murder and commit adultery and swear falsely and burn incense to Baal and walk after other gods that you* have not known, ¹⁰ and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name and say, We are delivered, that you* may do all these abominations?
¹¹ Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your* eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Jehovah.
¹² But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
¹³ And now, because you* have done all these works, says Jehovah. And I spoke to you*, rising up early and speaking, but you* heard not and I called you*, but you* answered not, ¹⁴ therefore I will do to the house, which is called by my name, in which you* trust and to the place which I gave to you* and to your* fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
¹⁵ And I will cast you* out of my sight, as I have cast out all your* brothers, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

²¹ I hate, I despise your* feasts and I will take no delight in your* solemn assemblies. ²² Yes, though you* offer me your* burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them, nor will I regard the peace offerings of your* fat beasts.

⁹ Do not think to say among yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; for I say to you, that God is able to lift up children out of these stones for Abraham. ¹⁰ But even already, the ax is laid to the root of the trees, because every tree which is not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

²⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you cleanse the outside of the cup and the plate, but they are full from swindling and unrighteousness inside. ²⁶ Blind Pharisee! First cleanse the cup from within and the plate, in order that the outside of them might also become clean.
²⁷ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you are similar to whitewashed burial chambers, which on the outside indeed appear beautiful, but inside are full of dead men’s bones, and full of all uncleanness. ²⁸ So on the outside you indeed appear also righteous to men, but inside, you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

²⁸ For he is not a Jew openly; nor is circumcision what is openly in the flesh, ²⁹ but he is a Jew in the hidden thing, and the circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in the writing; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

¹ Now brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant that our fathers were all under the cloud and all went through the sea; ² and were all immersed into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; ³ and all ate the same spiritual food; ⁴ and all were drinking the same spiritual drink; for they were drinking from a spiritual rock following them, and the rock was the Christ. ⁵ Yet God was not delighted in most of them; for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

⁵ holding to a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Now turn yourself away from these people.

⁴ holding a golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant, having been covered all around on every-side with gold, in which was the golden jar holding the manna and Aaron’s scepter which had sprouted and the tablets of the covenant;

²¹ which is our counterpart, immersion, saves us also now, not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the demand of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;

⁵ But I plan to remind you, though you knowing this once for all, that the Lord, having saved people out of the land of Egypt, destroyed those who did not believe the second-time.

¹⁸ And you will make two cherubim of gold; of beaten work will you make them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat. ¹⁹ And make one cherub at the one end and one cherub at the other end; of one piece with the mercy-seat you* will make the cherubim on the two ends of it. ²⁰ And the cherubim will spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, with their faces one to another; the faces of the cherubim will be toward the mercy-seat.
²¹ And you will put the mercy-seat above upon the ark. And in the ark you will put the testimony that I will give you. ²² And there I will meet with you. And I will speak with you from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give you in commandment to the sons of Israel.

⁵ When the camp sets forward, Aaron will go in and his sons and they will take down the veil of the screen and cover the ark of the testimony with it.

¹⁵ And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp is set forward, after that, the sons of Kohath will come to bear it, but they will not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting.

⁸⁹ And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with him, then he heard the Voice speaking to him from above the mercy-seat that was upon the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim and he spoke to him.

¹² Now the sons of Eli were worthless men; they did not know Jehovah. ¹³ And the custom of the priests with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand, ¹⁴ and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot. All that the fork brought up the priest took with it. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.
¹⁵ And before they burned the fat, the priest's servant came and said to the man who sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest, for he will not have boiled flesh from you, but raw. ¹⁶ And if the man said to him, They will surely burn the fat first and then take as much as your soul desires, then he would say, No, but you will give it to me now and if not, I will take it by force.
¹⁷ And the sin of the young men was very great before Jehovah, for the men despised the offering of Jehovah.

²² Now Eli was very old. And he heard all that his sons did to all Israel and how that they lay with the women who assembled at the door of the tent of meeting.

² And David arose and went with all the people who were with him, from Baale-judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name, even the name of Jehovah of hosts who sits above the cherubim.

¹⁵ And Hezekiah prayed before Jehovah and said, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, who sits above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

¹⁶ But to the wicked man God says, What have you to do to declare my statutes and that you have taken my covenant in your mouth, ¹⁷ since you hate instruction and cast my words behind you?

¹ Listen, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who sit above the cherubim, shine forth.

¹ Jehovah reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits above the cherubim, let the earth be moved.

⁹ You* say, And now, I beseech you*, entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us; this has been by your* means. Will he accept any of your* persons? says Jehovah of hosts.

¹⁵ But the evil spirit having answered, said to them, I know Jesus, and I know Paul, but who are you? ¹⁶ And the man in whom the evil spirit was, leaping upon them and having mastered, prevailed against them, so-that they fled out of that house, naked and traumatized.

⁵ And it will be, that, when they make a prolonged blast with the ram's horn and when you* hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people will shout with a great shout. And the wall of the city will fall down flat and the people will go up every man straight before him.

²⁰ So the people shouted and the priests blew the trumpets. And it happened, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him and they took the city.

¹⁴ When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. And the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon him and the ropes that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire and his bands dropped from his hands.

⁵ that the triumphing of the wicked is short and the joy of the profane but for a moment?

³ You* who put far away the evil day and cause the seat of violence to come near,

¹¹ If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies, saying, I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink, he will even be the prophet of this people.

¹⁷ And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp. ¹⁸ And he said, It is not the voice of those who shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome, but the noise of those who sing I hear.

²⁵ And he took off their chariot wheels and they drove them with difficulty, so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel, because Jehovah fights for them against the Egyptians.

¹⁴ The peoples have heard, they tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia. ¹⁵ Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed, the mighty men of Moab. Trembling takes hold upon them. All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away. ¹⁶ Terror and dread falls upon them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone, till your people pass over, O Jehovah, till the people pass over whom you have purchased.

³⁰ How should one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight unless their Rock had sold them and Jehovah had delivered them up?

⁵ And the Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah, when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt and bring out the sons of Israel from among them.

¹⁴ For this time I will send all my plagues upon your heart and upon your servants and upon your people, that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.

⁴³ how he set his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the field of Zoan, ⁴⁴ and turned their rivers into blood and their streams, so that they could not drink.
⁴⁵ He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them and frogs, which destroyed them. ⁴⁶ He also gave their increase to the caterpillar and their labor to the locust.
⁴⁷ He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore trees with frost. ⁴⁸ He also gave over their cattle to the hail and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
⁴⁹ He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath and indignation and trouble, a discharge of messengers of evil.
⁵⁰ He made a path for his anger. He spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence, ⁵¹ and killed* all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

⁴⁷ Because you served not Jehovah your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things, ⁴⁸ therefore you will serve your enemies that Jehovah will send against you, in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in want of all things. And he will put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he has destroyed you.

⁷ And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the sons of Ammon.

¹ And the sons of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of Jehovah and Jehovah delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

¹² Be of good courage and let us play the man on behalf of our people and the cities of our God. And Jehovah do what seems good to him.

² And the peoples will take them and bring them to their place. And the house of Israel will possess them in the land of Jehovah for servants and for handmaids. And they will take them captive whose captives they were and they will rule over their oppressors.

¹ Woe to you who destroys and you were not destroyed and deal treacherously and they did not deal treacherously with you! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed and when you have made an end of dealing treacherously, they will deal treacherously with you.

¹³ Watch. Stand-firm in the faith. Be manly. Be powerful.

¹⁰ Furthermore, my brethren, be empowered in the Lord and in the dominion of his strength. ¹¹ Clothe yourselves with the full-armor of God, that you may be able to stand up to the schemes of the devil.

¹⁷ And I will set my face against you* and you* will be struck before your* enemies. Those who hate you* will rule over you* and you* will flee when no man pursues you*.

²⁵ Jehovah will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them and will flee seven ways before them. And you will be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth.

² And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel. And when they joined battle, Israel was struck before the Philistines; and they killed of the army in the field about four thousand men.

⁷ And the people of Israel were struck there before the servants of David and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.

¹⁷ And they took Absalom and cast him into the great pit in the forest and raised over him a very great heap of stones. And all Israel fled every man to his tent.

⁸ Then the king arose and sat in the gate. And they told to all the people, saying, Behold, the king is sitting in the gate. And all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.

¹ And there happened to be there a worthless fellow whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite. And he blew the trumpet and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, O Israel.

¹⁶ And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? Neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your* tents, O Israel. Now see to your own house, David. So Israel departed to their tents.

³⁶ And there went a cry throughout the army about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city and every man to his country.

¹² And Judah was put to the worse before Israel and they fled every man to his tent.

¹⁷ And Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter. So there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

²² And Judah was put to the worse before Israel and they fled every man to his tent.

⁵ Therefore Jehovah his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria. And they killed* him and carried away of his a great multitude of captives and brought them to Damascus.
And he was also delivered into the hand of the King of Israel, who killed* him with a great slaughter. ⁶ For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men, because they had forsaken Jehovah, the God of their fathers.

⁹ The sons of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

⁶⁰ so that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men, ⁶¹ and delivered their strength into captivity and their glory into the adversary's hand.
⁶² He also gave his people over to the sword and was angry with his inheritance. ⁶³ Fire devoured their young men and their virgins had no marriage-song. ⁶⁴ Their priests fell by the sword and their widows made no lamentation.

³ And what will you* do in the day of visitation and in the desolation which will come from far? To whom will you* flee for help? And where will you* leave your* glory? ⁴ They will only bow down under the prisoners and will fall under the slain.
For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
⁵ Ho, Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation! ⁶ I will send him against a profane nation and against the people of my wrath. I will give him a charge, to take the spoil and to take the prey and to tread them down like the mud of the streets.

³² And you will see an enemy in my habitation, in all that I will give Israel and there will not be an old man in your house forever.

³⁴ And this will be the sign to you, that will come upon your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: In one day they will die, both of them.

⁶⁰ so that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men, ⁶¹ and delivered their strength into captivity and their glory into the adversary's hand.

⁶⁴ Their priests fell by the sword and their widows made no lamentation.

¹¹ Woe to the wicked! It is ill with him, for what his hands have done will be done to him.

⁶ And Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of Jehovah until the evening, he and the elders of Israel and they put dust upon their heads.

² it happened on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes torn and earth upon his head. And so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the ground and bowed-down.

¹⁹ And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore her garment of various colors that was on her.

³² And it happened, that, when David came to the top of the ascent, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat torn and dirt upon his head.

¹ Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the sons of Israel were assembled with fasting and with sackcloth and earth upon them.

¹² And when they lifted up their eyes afar off and did not recognize him, they lifted up their voice and wept. And each one tore his robe and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

⁹ For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will encompass us around and cut off our name from the earth and what will you do for your great name?

⁹ So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest was sitting upon his seat by the door-post of the temple of Jehovah.

¹⁸ And it happened, when he made mention of the ark of God, that Eli fell from his seat backward by the side of the gate. And his neck broke and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

³ And they said to me, The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. Also the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and the gates of it are burned with fire.
⁴ And it happened, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept and mourned certain days. And I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,

⁸ Jehovah, I love the habitation of your house and the place where your glory dwells.

¹ O God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
² They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food to the birds of the heavens, the flesh of your holy ones to the beasts of the earth. ³ They have shed their blood like water all around Jerusalem and there was none to bury them.
⁴ We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and ridicule to those who are all around us.
⁵ How long, O Jehovah? Will you be angry forever? Shall your jealousy burn like fire?
⁶ Pour out your wrath upon the nations that do not know you and upon the kingdoms that do not call upon your name.

⁴ How will we sing Jehovah's song in a foreign land?
⁵ If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget. ⁶ Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.

¹ And it happened, that when Isaac was old and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son and said to him, My son. And he said to him, Here I am.

² And it happened at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had begun to grow dim so that he could not see),

⁴ And Jeroboam's wife did so and arose and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah.
Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were set because of his age.

¹⁰ The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength eighty years, yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, because it is soon gone and we fly away.

¹⁹ And Joshua said to Achan, I beseech you, my son give glory to Jehovah, the God of Israel and make confession to him and tell me now what you have done. Hide it not from me.

⁶ And Jehovah called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, Here I am, for you called me. And he answered, I did not call, my son. Lie down again.

⁴ And David said to him, How did the matter go? I beseech you, tell me. And he answered, The people are fled from the battle and many of the people also are fallen and dead and Saul and Jonathan his son are also dead.

¹⁰ And the Philistines fought and Israel was struck and they fled every man to 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 killed.

³ Then Moses said to Aaron, This is it that Jehovah spoke, saying, I will be made holy by those who come near me. And I will be glorified before all the people. And Aaron remained silent.

³¹ Behold, the days come, that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father's house, that there will not be an old man in your house. ³² And you will see an enemy in my habitation, in all that I will give Israel and there will not be an old man in your house forever.

¹² In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end. ¹³ For I have told him that I will judge his house everlasting, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse upon themselves and he did not restrain them.

¹³ And when he came behold, Eli was sitting upon his seat by the wayside watching, for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city and told it, all the city cried out.

²¹ And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory has departed from Israel, because the ark of God was taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband. ²² And she said, The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God is taken.

³ My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is your God?

¹⁰ As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me; while they continually say to me, Where is your God?

⁹ Because the zeal of your house has eaten me up and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen upon me.

¹⁵ All who pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? ¹⁶ All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash the teeth. They say, We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found, we have seen it.
¹⁷ Jehovah has done what he purposed. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of long-ago. He has thrown down and has not pitied. And he has caused the enemy to rejoice over you. He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
¹⁸ Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no respite. Do not let the apple of your eye cease. ¹⁹ Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches. Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young sons, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

³⁰ Because of this, many among you are weak and sick and a considerable number fall-asleep. ³¹ For if we were discerning ourselves, we would not be judged. ³² But being judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, in order that we should not be condemned together with the world.

¹⁷ Because the time for judgment is to begin from the house of God, and if it begins first from us, what will be the end of those who are disobedient to the good-news of God? ¹⁸ And if the righteous one is scarcely saved, where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?

¹⁷ And it happened, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, Do not fear, now you will have another son. ¹⁸ And it happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-oni.

² I sought the Lord in the day of my trouble. My hand was stretched out in the night and did not slack. My soul refused to be comforted.

²¹ A woman has sorrow whenever she gives-birth, because her hour has come, but whenever the child is born, she remembers the affliction no more, because of the joy that a child has been born into the world.

¹¹ And the ark of God was taken and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were killed.

⁶¹ and delivered their strength into captivity and their glory into the adversary's hand.

²⁰ Thus they changed their glory for the likeness of an ox that eats grass.

¹¹ Has a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for what does not profit.

¹² Though they bring up their sons, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man will be left. Yes, woe also to them when I depart from them!

¹⁷ Now his disciples were reminded that it has been written, ‘Zeal of your house will be eating me up.’