1 Samuel 4

1 And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight: and Israel went out to war against the Philistines, and camped by the Stone of help. And the Philistines came to Aphec,

and to be word Samuel to/for all Israel and to come out: come Israel to/for to encounter: toward Philistine to/for battle and to camp upon [the] Ebenezer Ebenezer and Philistine to camp in/on/with Aphek

2 And put their army in array against Israel. And when they had joined battle, Israel turned their backs to the Philistines, and there was slain in that fight here and there in the fields about four thousand men.

and to arrange Philistine to/for to encounter: toward Israel and to leave [the] battle and to strike Israel to/for face: before Philistine and to smite in/on/with rank in/on/with land: country like/as four thousand man

3 And the people returned to the camp: and the ancients of Israel said: Why hath the Lord defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us fetch unto us the ark of the covenant of the Lord from Silo, and let it come in the midst of us, that it may save us from the hand of our enemies.

and to come (in): come [the] people to(wards) [the] camp and to say old: elder Israel to/for what? to strike us LORD [the] day to/for face: before Philistine to take: bring to(wards) us from Shiloh [obj] ark covenant LORD and to come (in): come in/on/with entrails: among our and to save us from palm enemy our

4 So the people sent to Silo, and they brought from thence the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts sitting upon the cherubims: and the two sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were with the ark of the covenant of God.

and to send: depart [the] people Shiloh and to lift: bear from there [obj] ark covenant LORD Hosts to dwell [the] cherub and there two son: child Eli with ark covenant [the] God Hophni and Phinehas

5 And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord was come into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, and the earth rang again.

and to be like/as to come (in): come ark covenant LORD to(wards) [the] camp and to shout all Israel shout great: large and to make noise [the] land: country/planet

6 And the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, and they said: What is this noise of a great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the Lord was come into the camp.

and to hear: hear Philistine [obj] voice: sound [the] shout and to say what? voice: sound [the] shout [the] great: large [the] this in/on/with camp [the] Hebrew and to know for ark LORD to come (in): come to(wards) [the] camp

7 And the Philistines were afraid, saying: God is come into the camp. And sighing, they said:

and to fear [the] Philistine for to say to come (in): come God to(wards) [the] camp and to say woe! to/for us for not to be like/as this previously three days ago

8 Woe to us: for there was no such great joy yesterday and the day before: Woe to us. Who shall deliver us from the hand of these high gods? these are the gods that struck Egypt with all the plagues in the desert.

woe! to/for us who? to rescue us from hand: power [the] God [the] great [the] these these they(masc.) [the] God [the] to smite [obj] Egypt in/on/with all wound in/on/with wilderness

9 Take courage and behave like men, ye Philistines: lest you come to be servants to the Hebrews, as they have served you: take courage and fight.

to strengthen: strengthen and to be to/for human Philistine lest to serve to/for Hebrew like/as as which to serve to/for you and to be to/for human and to fight

10 So the Philistines fought, and Israel was overthrown, and every man fled to his own dwelling: and there was an exceeding great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.

and to fight Philistine and to strike Israel and to flee man: anyone to/for tent: home his and to be [the] wound great: large much and to fall: kill from Israel thirty thousand on foot

11 And the ark of God was taken: and the two sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were slain.

and ark God to take: take and two son: child Eli to die Hophni and Phinehas

12 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Silo the same day, with his clothes rent, and his head strewed with dust.

and to run: run man Benjamin from [the] rank and to come (in): come Shiloh in/on/with day [the] he/she/it and garment his to tear and land: soil upon head his

13 And when he was come, Heli sat upon a stool over against the way watching. For his heart was fearful for the ark of God. And when the man was come into the city, he told it: and all the city cried out.

and to come (in): come and behold Eli to dwell upon [the] throne: seat (hand: by *QK) way: road to watch for to be heart his trembling upon ark [the] God and [the] man to come (in): come to/for to tell in/on/with city and to cry out all [the] city

14 And Heli heard the noise of the cry, and he said: What meaneth the noise of this uproar? But he made haste, and came, and told Heli.

and to hear: hear Eli [obj] voice: sound [the] cry and to say what? voice: sound [the] crowd [the] this and [the] man to hasten and to come (in): come and to tell to/for Eli

15 Now Heli was ninety and eight years old, and his eyes were dim, and he could not see.

and Eli son: aged ninety and eight year and eye his to arise: establish and not be able to/for to see: see

16 And he said to Heli: I am he that came from the battle, and have fled out of the field this day. And he said to him: What is there done, my son?

and to say [the] man to(wards) Eli I [the] to come (in): come from [the] rank and I from [the] rank to flee [the] day and to say what? to be [the] word: thing son: child my

17 And he that brought the news answered, and said: Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter of the people: moreover thy two sons, Ophni and Phinees, are dead: and the ark of God is taken.

and to answer [the] to bear tidings and to say to flee Israel to/for face: before Philistine and also plague great: large to be in/on/with people and also two son: child your to die Hophni and Phinehas and ark [the] God to take: take

18 And when he had named the ark of God, he fell from his stool backwards by the door, and broke his neck, and died. For he was an old man, and far advanced in years: and he judged Israel forty years.

and to be like/as to remember he [obj] ark [the] God and to fall: fall from upon [the] throne: seat backwards about/through/for hand: to [the] gate and to break neck his and to die for be old [the] man and heavy and he/she/it to judge [obj] Israel forty year

19 And his daughter in law the wife of Phinees, was big with child, and near her time: and hearing the news that the ark of God was taken, and her father in law, and her husband, were dead, she bowed herself and fell in labour: for her pains came upon her on a sudden.

and daughter-in-law his woman: wife Phinehas pregnant to/for to beget and to hear: hear [obj] [the] tidings to(wards) to take: take ark [the] God and to die father-in-law her and man: husband her and to bow and to beget for to overturn upon her pang her

20 And when she was upon the point of death, they that stood about her said to her: Fear not, for thou hast borne a son. She answered them not, nor gave heed to them.

and like/as time to die she and to speak: speak [the] to stand upon her not to fear for son: child to beget and not to answer and not to set: consider heart her

21 And she called the child Ichabod, saying: The glory is gone from Israel, because the ark of God was taken, and for her father in law, and her husband:

and to call: call by to/for youth Ichabod Ichabod to/for to say to reveal: remove glory from Israel to(wards) to take: take ark [the] God and to(wards) father-in-law her and man: husband her

22 And she said: The glory is departed from Israel, because the ark of God was taken.

and to say to reveal: remove glory from Israel for to take: take ark [the] God