1 Samuel 4:16

I am he that came out of the army; I speak not what I have by uncertain rumours, but what mine eyes were witnesses of.

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¹⁶ And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?

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