1 Samuel 4:5
And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord came into the camp,.... Being brought thither by the men that carried it:
all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again; this they…
Methodist theologian, 1762–1832
Adam Clarke
All Israel shouted - Had they humbled themselves, and prayed devoutly and fervently for success, they would have been heard and saved. Their shouting proved both their vanity and irreligion.
The first words of this paragraph, which relate to Samuel, that his word came to all Israel, seem not to have any reference to the following story, as if it was by any direction of his that the…
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