5. When the Covenant Box arrived, the Israelites gave such a loud shout of joy that the earth shook.
6. The Philistines heard the shouting and said, “Listen to all that shouting in the Hebrew camp! What does it mean?” When they found out that the Lord's Covenant Box had arrived in the Hebrew camp,
7. they were afraid, and said, “A god has come into their camp! We're lost! Nothing like this has ever happened to us before!
8. Who can save us from those powerful gods? They are the gods who slaughtered the Egyptians in the desert!
9. Be brave, Philistines! Fight like men, or we will become slaves to the Hebrews, just as they were our slaves. So fight like men!”
10. The Philistines fought hard and defeated the Israelites, who went running to their homes. There was a great slaughter: 30,000 Israelite soldiers were killed.