1 Samuel 4:5
Good News Translation
When the Covenant Box arrived, the Israelites gave such a loud shout of joy that the earth shook.

New Revised Standard Version
When the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel gave a mighty shout, so that the earth resounded.

Contemporary English Version
brought the chest into camp, the army cheered so loudly that the ground shook.

New American Bible
When the ark of the LORD arrived in the camp, all Israel shouted so loudly that the earth shook.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord was come into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, and the earth rang again.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord was come into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, and the earth rang again.

Judges 15:14 Now when he was come to the place of the Jawbone, and the Philistines shouting went to meet him, the Spirit of the Lord came strongly upon him: and as flax is wont to be consumed at the approach of fire, so the bands with which he was bound were broken and loosed.

Job 20:5 That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.

Jeremiah 7:4 Trust not in lying words, saying: The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, it is the temple of the Lord.

Amos 6:3 You that are separated unto the evil day: and that approach to the throne of iniquity;

Micah 2:11 Arise ye, and depart, for there is no rest here for you. For that uncleanness of the land, it shall be corrupted with a grievous corruption.

Context
The Philistines Capture the Ark
4So the people sent to Silo, and they brought from thence the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts, sitting upon the cherubims: and the two sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were with the ark of the covenant of God. 5And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord was come into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, and the earth rang again.6And the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, and they said: What is this noise of a great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the Lord was come into the camp.…
Cross References
Joshua 6:5
And when the voice of the trumpet shall give a longer and broken tune, and shall sound in your ears, all the people shall shout together with a very great shout, and the walls of the city shall fall to the ground, and they shall enter in every one at the place against which they shall stand.

Joshua 6:20
So all the people making a shout, and the trumpets sounding, when the voice and the sound thundered in the ears of the multitude, the walls forthwith fell down: and every man went up by the place that was over against him: and they took the city,

1 Samuel 4:6
And the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, and they said: What is this noise of a great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the Lord was come into the camp.

2 Samuel 15:24
And Sadoc the priest also came, and all the Levites with him carrying the ark of the covenant of God, and they set down the ark of God: and Abiathar went up, till all the people that was come out of the city had done passing.

1 Samuel 4:4
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