1 Samuel 4:10-22

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[10] The 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. [11] The ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain. [12] There 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. [13] When 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. [14] When Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What means the noise of this tumult? The man hurried, and came and told Eli. [15] Now Eli was ninety-eight years old; and his eyes were set, so that he could not see. [16] 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 went the matter, my son? [17] He who brought the news answered, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken. [18] It 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. [19] His daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the news that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and brought forth; for her pains came on her. [20] About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, Don't be afraid; for you have brought forth a son. But she didn't answer, neither did she regard it. [21] She named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel; because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband. [22] She said, The glory is departed from Israel; for the ark of God is taken.

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1 Samuel 4:10-22 mentions Aphek, Ebenezer and Shiloh.