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An Urgent Eyewitness Report
Commentators note the messenger's emphasis on fleeing "today." This highlights the immediacy of the news and his credibility as an eyewitness who rushed from the battlefield. The vividness of the scene, as scholars point out, suggests it was a deeply memorable and traumatic event for Israel.
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1 Samuel
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Charles Ellicott
On 1 Samuel 4:16
19th Century
Bishop
I fled today out of the army. —The fatal battle had taken place very early that same morning. The utter rout, the awful slaughter, the dea…
John Gill
On 1 Samuel 4:16
17th Century
Pastor
And the man said to Eli, I am he that came out of the army ,
&c.] It is very probable that the people Eli inquired o…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Samuel 4:12–18
17th Century
Minister
The defeat of the army was very distressing to Eli as a judge; the news of the death of his two sons, to whom he had been so indulgent, and who, as…