1 Samuel 4:3 meaning and explanation
When the troops returned to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why has the LORD brought defeat on us before the Philistines today? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Shiloh, so that it may go with us to save us from the hand of our enemies.”
1 Samuel 4:3, Berean Standard Bible
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After four thousand men fall, the elders of Israel ask why the LORD allowed the defeat, but their solution is to fetch the ark of the covenant from Shiloh and carry it into battle as a guarantee of victory. The ark was the chest beneath the cherubim where God was said to sit enthroned, the holiest object Israel possessed.
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