1 Samuël 4:7

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

werden zij bevreesd; want, zeiden zij, hun god is bij hen in het leger gekomen! Wee ons! want zo iets is gisteren of eergisteren niet gebeurd.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
vreesden zij en spraken: God is in het leger gekomen. En zij zeiden verder: Wee ons, want zo iets is tevoren nooit gebeurd.

Staten Vertaling
Daarom vreesden de Filistijnen, want zij zeiden: God is in het leger gekomen. En zij zeiden: Wee ons, want diergelijke is gisteren en eergisteren niet geschied!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

were afraid: Exodus 14:25, Exodus 15:14-16, Deuteronomy 32:30

heretofore: Heb. yesterday or the third day

Reciprocal: Job 15:25 - strengtheneth Psalms 60:10 - didst Isaiah 41:6 - helped Jeremiah 18:13 - who

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Philistines were afraid,.... When the spies returned, and reported to them the reason of the shouting:

for they said, God is come into the camp; into the camp of Israel, because the ark represented him, and was the symbol of his presence; and these Heathens might take the ark itself for an idol of the Israelites; the Targum is,

"the ark of God is come''

and they said, woe unto us; it is all over with us, destruction and ruin will be our case, victory will go on their side now their God is among them:

for there hath not been such a thing heretofore; if by this they meant that the ark had never been in the camp of Israel before, they were mistaken; and it is no great wonder they should, being not so well acquainted with the affairs of Israel, and their customs; or rather, it was not so yesterday, or three days ago, when they were defeated; there was no shouting then: or the state of the war is altered; before we fought with the men of Israel, but now we must fight with the God of Israel also.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 4:7. God is come into the camp. — They took for granted, as did the Israelites, that his presence was inseparable from his ark or shrine.