1 Samuel 4:16

World English Bible (2000)

The man said to Eli, "I am he who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army." He said, "How did the matter go, my son?"

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 1:4 : 4 David said to him, "How did it go? Please tell me." He answered, "The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also."
  • Josh 7:19 : 19 Joshua said to Achan, "My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don't hide it from me!"
  • 1 Sam 3:6 : 6 Yahweh called yet again, "Samuel!" Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, "Here I am; for you called me." He answered, "I didn't call, my son; lie down again."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 4:17-18
    2 verses
    85%

    17He who brought the news answered, "Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured."

    18It happened, when he made mention of the ark of God, that Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died; for he was an old man, and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

  • 1 Sam 4:10-15
    6 verses
    81%

    10The Philistines fought, and Israel was struck, and they fled every man to his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.

    11The ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

    12There ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn, and with earth on his head.

    13When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching; for his heart trembled for the ark of God. When the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.

    14When Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, "What does the noise of this tumult mean?" The man hurried, and came and told Eli.

    15Now Eli was ninety-eight years old; and his eyes were set, so that he could not see.

  • 2 Sam 1:3-4
    2 verses
    77%

    3David said to him, "Where do you come from?" He said to him, "I have escaped out of the camp of Israel."

    4David said to him, "How did it go? Please tell me." He answered, "The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also."

  • 1 Sam 3:15-17
    3 verses
    76%

    15Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of Yahweh. Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.

    16Then Eli called Samuel, and said, "Samuel, my son!" He said, "Here I am."

    17He said, "What is the thing that [Yahweh] has spoken to you? Please don't hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to you."

  • 2 Sam 1:13
    76%

    13David said to the young man who told him, "Where are you from?" He answered, "I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite."

  • 1 Sam 4:1-4
    4 verses
    75%

    1The word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer: and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.

    2The Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was struck before the Philistines; and they killed of the army in the field about four thousand men.

    3When the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, "Why has Yahweh struck us today before the Philistines? Let us get the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of Shiloh to us, that it may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies."

    4So the people sent to Shiloh; and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh of Armies, who sits [above] the cherubim: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

  • 2 Sam 1:6-9
    4 verses
    75%

    6The young man who told him said, "As I happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and behold, the chariots and the horsemen followed hard after him.

    7When he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. I answered, 'Here I am.'

    8He said to me, 'Who are you?' I answered him, 'I am an Amalekite.'

    9He said to me, 'Please stand beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life is yet whole in me.'

  • 1 Sam 2:27
    74%

    27A man of God came to Eli, and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Did I reveal myself to the house of your father, when they were in Egypt [in bondage] to Pharaoh's house?

  • 1 Sam 3:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4that Yahweh called Samuel; and he said, "Here I am."

    5He ran to Eli, and said, "Here I am; for you called me." He said, "I didn't call; lie down again." He went and lay down.

  • 1 Sam 4:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, "What does the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?" They understood that the ark of Yahweh had come into the camp.

    7The Philistines were afraid, for they said, "God has come into the camp." They said, "Woe to us! For there has not been such a thing before.

  • 1 Sam 4:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21She named the child Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel;" because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

    22She said, "The glory has departed from Israel; for the ark of God is taken."

  • 1 Sam 17:8
    72%

    8He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, "Why have you come out to set your battle in array? Am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.

  • 1 Sam 1:3
    71%

    3This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there.

  • 1 Sam 14:22
    71%

    22Likewise all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.

  • 1 Sam 11:5
    71%

    5Behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; and Saul said, "What ails the people that they weep?" They told him the words of the men of Jabesh.

  • 1 Sam 13:11
    71%

    11Samuel said, "What have you done?" Saul said, "Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn't come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;

  • 1 Sam 31:1
    71%

    1Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.

  • 1 Sam 17:19
    71%

    19Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 17:24
    71%

    24All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were terrified.

  • 1 Chr 10:1
    71%

    1Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.

  • Judg 13:11
    71%

    11Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, "Are you the man who spoke to the woman?" He said, "I am."

  • 1 Sam 1:17
    71%

    17Then Eli answered, "Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him."

  • 1 Sam 17:55-56
    2 verses
    71%

    55When Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, "Abner, whose son is this youth?" Abner said, "As your soul lives, O king, I can't tell."

    56The king said, "Inquire whose son the young man is!"

  • 1 Sam 30:13
    71%

    13David asked him, "To whom do you belong? Where are you from?" He said, "I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick.

  • 1 Sam 22:12
    70%

    12Saul said, "Hear now, you son of Ahitub." He answered, "Here I am, my lord."

  • 1 Sam 1:25
    70%

    25They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli.

  • 1 Sam 17:52
    70%

    52The men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until you come to Gai, and to the gates of Ekron. The wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even to Gath, and to Ekron.

  • 1 Sam 16:4
    70%

    4Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, "Do you come peaceably?"

  • 1 Sam 17:26
    70%

    26David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, "What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?"

  • 1 Sam 17:58
    70%

    58Saul said to him, "Whose son are you, you young man?" David answered, "I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite."