1 SAMUEL 4:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.”
Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the power of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with every kind of plague in the wilderness—the Philistine leaders recall the *plague narratives* of Exodus, inferring that the LORD who defeated Egypt now fights for Israel. The reference to *midbar* (wilderness) suggests knowledge of the Exodus tradition.
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