1;  The Israelites are overcome by the Philistines at Ebenezer.
  3;  They fetch the ark unto the terror of the Philistines.
 10;  They are smitten again, the ark taken, and Hophni and
     Phinehas are slain.
 12;  Eli at the news, falling backward, breaks his neck.
 19;  Phinehas's wife, discouraged in her travail with I-chabod,
     dies.

 * A.M. 2863.  B.C. 1141.  An. Ex. Is. 350.  came.  or, came to
   pass.  Heb. was.
  3:11 
 * Eben-ezer.
   That is, the place afterwards so called:  See the Parallel
   Texts.

  5:1  7:12 
 * Aphek.
   This Aphek was situated in the tribe of Judah, and is probably
   the same as Aphekah.

  Jos 15:53 
   It must be carefully distinguished from that near Jezreel, and
   another in Asher.

  29:1  Jos 19:30  1Ki 20:30