1 Samuel 4:1 (WEB)
The 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.
Fathers and councils · 2
Ambrose of Milan
“For so we read in the first book of Kings: “It came to pass in those days that they of another race put themselves in array against Israel.”” — editor's note: 1 Sam. [1 Kings] iv. 1.
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Aphrahat
“The Moabites ruled over them in the days of Ehud; the Ammonites in the days of Jephthah; the Philistines in the days of Samson, and also in the days of Eli and of Samuel the Prophet; the Edomites in the days of Ahab; the Assyrians in the days of Hezekiah.” — editor's note: 1 Sam. iv. 1, sq.
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