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Ebenezer

• Today Izbet Sartah
• Location tentative

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Battles and sieges

1. c. 1070 BCThe Philistines take the ark at Ebenezer 1 Sam 4:1–11
   Israel, camped at Ebenezer with the ark, against the Philistines at Aphek. Israel is beaten twice; thirty thousand fall, the ark is taken, Hophni and Phinehas are slain.

Verses (2)

1 Sam 4:1

And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Eben-ezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.

1 Sam 5:1

And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Eben-ezer unto Ashdod.

King James Version

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