1 Samuel 4:17

American Standard Version (1901)

And he that brought the tidings answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.

Cross References

1 Samuel 3:11

And Jehovah said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.

1 Samuel 2:34

And this shall be the sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them.

1 Samuel 4:16

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, How went the matter, my son?

1 Samuel 4:18

And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

Psalm 78:61

And delivered his strength into captivity, And his glory into the adversary’s hand.

Psalm 78:64

Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation.

1 Samuel 3:12

In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even unto the end.