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What should a child notice in 1 Samuel 4?
1 Samuel 4 opens with these words: “The word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer; and the…” The line to keep is 1 Samuel 4:8: “Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.” Carry the word “deliver” from that verse into the rest of the day. A sentence to keep is 1 Samuel 4:8: “Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.” What happens first in 1 Samuel 4?
1 Samuel 4:8
“Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.”
1 Samuel 4:3
“When the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has Yahweh defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us get the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of Shiloh and bring it to us, that it may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies.””
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Practice 1 Samuel 4:8
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Woetous!Whodeliverusoutofthehandofthesemightygods?ThesearethegodsthatstrucktheEgyptianswithallofplaguesinthe