Hearing the uproar, the Philistines asked, “What’s all this shouting in the Hebrew(A) camp?”

When they learned that the ark of the Lord had come into the camp, the Philistines were afraid.(B) “A god has[a] come into the camp,” they said. “Oh no! Nothing like this has happened before.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 4:7 Or “Gods have (see Septuagint)

And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the Lord was come into the camp.

And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a thing heretofore.

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