1Sa 4:1, 1Ki 20:26 | TSK | STEP | The Israelites are overcome by the Philistines at Ebenezer. They fetch the ark unto the terror of the Philistines. They are smitten again, the ark taken, and Hophni and Phinehas are slain. Eli at the news, falling backward, breaks his neck. Phinehas's wife, discouraged in her travail with I-chabod, dies. A.M. 2863. B.C. 1141. An. Ex. Is. 350. came. or, came topass. Heb. was. Eben-ezer.That is, the place afterwards so called: See the Parallel Texts. Aphek.This Aphek was situated in the tribe of Judah, and is probably the same as Aphekah. It must be carefully distinguished from that near Jezreel, and another in Asher.

1 Samuel 4:1

1 The Israelites are overcome by the Philistines at Ebenezer.

3 They fetch the ark unto the terror of the Philistines.

10 They are smitten again, the ark taken, and Hophni and Phinehas are slain.

12 Eli at the news, falling backward, breaks his neck.

19 Phinehas's wife, discouraged in her travail with I-chabod, dies.

A.M. 2863. B.C. 1141. An. Ex. Is. 350. came. or, came topass. Heb. was.

3:11

Eben-ezer.That is, the place afterwards so called: See the Parallel Texts.

5:1; 7:12

Aphek.This Aphek was situated in the tribe of Judah, and is probably the same as Aphekah.

Jos 15:53It must be carefully distinguished from that near Jezreel, and another in Asher.

29:1; Jos 19:30; 1Ki 20:30

1 Kings 20:26

Aphek.Supposed to be the Aphek near the river Adonis, between Heliopolis and Biblos, and probably the same place that Paul Lucas mentions in his Voyage to the Levant. It was swallowed up by an earthquake, and formed a lake about nine miles in circumference, in which he says there were several houses still to be seen entire, under the water.

30; Jos 13:4; 19:30; Jud 1:31

Aphik.

1Sa 4:1; 29:1; 2Ki 13:17

to fight against Israel. Heb. to the war with Israel.