BIBLE STUDY AND QUIZ!
1. Why do you think the LORD allowed Israel to be defeated by the Philistines in 1Samuel 4:1-3?

2. Why do you think the Philistines were later able to capture the ark of the LORD in verses 10 and 11?

And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out to battle against the Philistines, and encamped beside Ebenezer; and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.
Then the Philistines put themselves in battle array against Israel. And when they joined battle, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men of the army in the field.
And when the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has the LORD defeated us today before the Philistines?… So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and every man fled to his tent. There was a very great slaughter, and there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers.
Also the ark of God was captured; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.

Quiz:
1. Why do you think the LORD allowed Israel to be defeated by the Philistines?

2. Why do you think the Philistines were later able to capture the ark of the LORD in  verses 10 and 11?