BRAGADAYJAH 813
Israel Defeated Again.
Now when the Philistines heard the
noise of the shout and perceived that it was because the presence of the Lord
of Host of the Israelites was among them, the Philistines became very afraid
and exclaimed, “God has come into the camp of our enemy, and woe is us, for
this is a thing we have not seen before.”
“And now who shall deliver us from the mighty God of Israel, the God who
smote the Egyptians with all those plagues!”
So the men of the Philistines were urged to brace themselves and fight
like men, less they fall slave to the Hebrews. And the Philistines fought and
Israel was smitten and those who were able to escape fled to their tents; and
there was a great slaughter that day as there fell thirty thousand Israeli
footmen that day; and the Ark of God was taken and the two sons of Eli, Hophni
and Phinehas were slain. That same day, a man came out of the army to Shiloh
and found Eli sitting by the wayside waiting, for his heart was heavy and
troubled for the ark of God; and when the man told the people what had happened
they wept bitterly and loudly and Eli heard the weeping of the people even
before the man from the army told him the bad news.
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