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Polyglot Bible: 1 Samuel: 1 Samuel 4

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This is a parallel-text biblical document presenting 1 Samuel 4:1–22 in three versions side by side: the King James Version (with Strong's concordance numbers interspersed), the Greek Septuagint (LXX), and the Hebrew Masoretic Text. The chapter narrates Israel's catastrophic defeat by the Philistines: a first battle kills 4,000 Israelites, then the elders fetch the Ark of the Covenant from Shiloh to serve as a divine weapon — but the tactic backfires, costing 30,000 lives, the capture of the Ark, and the deaths of Eli's corrupt sons Hophni and Phinehas. The aged priest Eli, waiting anxiously at Shiloh, dies of a broken neck when he hears the news; his pregnant daughter-in-law dies in childbirth naming her son Ichabod ("the glory has departed from Israel"). The most notable scholarly feature of the presentation is an implicit textual-critical comparison: the KJV states Eli judged Israel forty years, while the Septuagint column gives twenty years — a well-known manuscript divergence. The document appears designed for detailed biblical study or comparative translation work, not devotional reading, and would interest readers doing textual criticism or interlinear analysis of the Hebrew Bible.

Polyglot Bible: 1 Samuel: 1 Samuel 4

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