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1 Samuel 4:5

Adam Clarke
Bible Commentary

All Israel shouted - Had they humbled themselves, and prayed devoutly and fervently for success, they would have been heard and saved. Their shouting proved both their vanity and irreligion.

Matthew Henry
Concise Bible Commentary
Israel is smitten before the Philistines. Sin, the accursed thing, was in the camp, and gave their enemies all the advantage they could wish for. They own the hand of God in their trouble; but, instead of submitting, they speak angrily, as not aware of any just provocation they had given him. The foolishness of man perverts his way, and then his heart frets against the Lord, Pr 19:3, and finds fault with him. They supposed that they could oblige God to appear for them, by bringing the ark into their camp. Those who have gone back in the life of religion, sometimes discover great fondness for the outward observances of it, as if those would save them; and as if the ark, God's throne, in the camp, would bring them to heaven, though the world and the flesh are on the throne in the heart.
Ellen G. White
Spiritual Gifts, vol. 4a, 105-6
Ellen G. White
The Story of Redemption, 185-7
Ellen G. White
Testimonies for the Church, vol. 4, 516
Ellen G. White
SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 2 (EGW), 1011
Ellen G. White
Patriarchs and Prophets, 622
The Period of the Judges
The Battle at Ebenezer and the Loss of the Ark