¹ And the word of Samuel is to all Israel, and Israel goeth out to meet the Philistines for battle, and they encamp by Eben-Ezer, and the Philistines have encamped in Aphek,

¹² And Samuel taketh a stone, and setteth `it' between Mizpeh and Shen, and calleth its name Eben-Ezer, saying, `Hitherto hath Jehovah helped us.'

¹ And the Philistines gather all their camps to Aphek, and the Israelites are encamping at a fountain which `is' in Jezreel,

¹ And the Philistines have taken the ark of God, and bring it in from Eben-Ezer to Ashdod,

¹⁸ The king of Aphek, one; The king of Lasharon, one;

⁵³ and Janum, and Beth-Tappuah, and Aphekah,

³⁰ and Ummah, and Aphek, and Rehob; twenty and two cities and their villages.

¹¹ And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Lo, I am doing a thing in Israel, at which the two ears of every one hearing it do tingle.

³⁰ And those left flee to Aphek, unto the city, and the wall falleth on twenty and seven chief men who are left, and Ben-Hadad hath fled, and cometh in unto the city, into the innermost part.