The messenger answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”
Then the LORD said to Samuel, “I am about to do something in Israel at which the ears of all who hear it will tingle.
So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. The slaughter was very great—thirty t