9 Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt
say, Speak, LORD; for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
10 And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel
answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth.
11 And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of
every one that heareth it shall tingle.
12 In that day I will perform against Eli all thingswhich I have spoken concerning his house:
when I begin, I will also make an end.
13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth;
because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
14 And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be
purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.
15 And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the LORD. And Samuel
feared to shew Eli the vision.
16 Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he answered, Here amI.
17 And he said, What isthe thing that the LORDhath said unto thee? I pray thee hide itnot
from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide anything from me of all the things that
he said unto thee.
18 And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It isthe LORD: let
him do what seemeth him good.
19 And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the
ground.
20 And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel wasestablished to bea prophet
of the LORD.
21 And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by
the word of the LORD.
1 And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to
battle, and pitched beside Ebenezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.
2 And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle,
Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four
thousand men.
3 And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the
LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD
out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our
enemies.
4 So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the
LORD of hosts, which dwelleth betweenthe cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and
Phinehas, werethere with the ark of the covenant of God.
5 And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD 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 meaneththe 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.
7 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.
8 Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these arethe Gods
that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.
9 Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the
Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.

10 And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into 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 slain.
12 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his
clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.
13 And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a 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 meaneththe noise of this tumult?
And the man came in hastily, and told Eli.
15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.
16 And the man said unto Eli, I amhe that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the
army. And he said, What is there done, my son?
17 And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath
been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are
dead, and the ark of God is taken.
18 And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat
backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, 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, nearto be delivered: and when she
heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were
dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.
20 And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for
thou hast born a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.
21 And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is 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 is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.
1 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod.
2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by
Dagon.
3 And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon wasfallen upon his face
to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
4 And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon wasfallen upon his face to
the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands
werecut off upon the threshold; only the stump ofDagon was left to him.
5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's house, tread on the
threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.
6 But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote
them with emerods, evenAshdod and the coasts thereof.
7 And when the men of Ashdod saw that it wasso, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall
not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.
8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What
shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of
Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about thither.
9 And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city
with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they
had emerods in their secret parts.
10 Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to
Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel
to us, to slay us and our people.

11 So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the
ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people:
for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
12 And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to
heaven.
1 And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the
ark of the LORD? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place.
3 And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise
return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his
hand is not removed from you.
4 Then said they, What shall bethe trespass offering which we shall return to him? They
answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according tothe number of the lords of
the Philistines: for one plague wason you all, and on your lords.
5 Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land;
and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off
you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
6 Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts?
when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
7 Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke,
and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:
8 And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye
return him fora trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may
go.
9 And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, thenhe hath done us this
great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it isnot his hand thatsmote us: it wasa chance
thathappened to us.
10 And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their
calves at home:
11 And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the
images of their emerods.
12 And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, andwent along the highway,
lowing as they went, and turned not aside tothe right hand or tothe left; and the lords of the
Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.
13 And they ofBethshemesh werereaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up
their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.
14 And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and stood there, where there was
a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the
LORD.
15 And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer that waswith it, wherein the
jewels of gold were, and put themon the great stone: and the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt
offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.
16 And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.
17 And these arethe golden emerods which the Philistines returned fora trespass offering
unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
18 And the golden mice, according tothe number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging
to the five lords, bothof fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of
Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remainethunto this day in the
field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.