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1 Samuel 4:8

Adam Clarke
Bible Commentary

These mighty Gods - האדרים האלהים מיד miyad haelohim haaddirim, from the hand of these illustrious Gods. Probably this should be translated in the singular, and not in the plural: Who shall deliver us from the hand of this illustrious God?

Albert Barnes
Notes on the Whole Bible

This is a remarkable testimony on the part of the Philistines to the truth of the events which are recorded in the Pentateuch. The Philistines would of course hear of them, just as Balak and the people of Jericho did Numbers 22:5; Joshua 2:10.

With all the plagues … - Rather, “with every kind of plague” equivalent to “with utter destruction.

Matthew Henry
Concise Bible Commentary
Israel is smitten before the Philistines. Sin, the accursed thing, was in the camp, and gave their enemies all the advantage they could wish for. They own the hand of God in their trouble; but, instead of submitting, they speak angrily, as not aware of any just provocation they had given him. The foolishness of man perverts his way, and then his heart frets against the Lord, Pr 19:3, and finds fault with him. They supposed that they could oblige God to appear for them, by bringing the ark into their camp. Those who have gone back in the life of religion, sometimes discover great fondness for the outward observances of it, as if those would save them; and as if the ark, God's throne, in the camp, would bring them to heaven, though the world and the flesh are on the throne in the heart.
Ellen G. White
Spiritual Gifts, vol. 4a, 105-6
Ellen G. White
The Story of Redemption, 185-7
Ellen G. White
Testimonies for the Church, vol. 4, 516
Ellen G. White
Patriarchs and Prophets, 622
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