1 Samuel 4:11

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And the ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain. [Foretold in I Sam. 2:34.]

Cross References

Psalm 78:56

Yet they tempted and provoked and rebelled against the Most High God and kept not His testimonies.

Psalm 78:64

Their priests [Hophni and Phinehas] fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation [for the bodies came not back from the scene of battle, and the widow of Phinehas also died that day]. [I Sam. 4:11, 19, 20.]

Isaiah 3:11

Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with them, for what their hands have done shall be done to them.

Jeremiah 7:12

But go now to My place which was in Shiloh [in Ephraim], where I set My Name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of My people Israel. [I Sam. 4:10-18.]

1 Samuel 2:31

Behold, the time is coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your own father's house, that there shall not be an old man in your house.

1 Samuel 2:32

And you shall behold the distress of My house, even in all the prosperity which God will give Israel, and there shall not be an old man in your house forever.

1 Samuel 2:34

And what befalls your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be a sign to you–in one day they both shall die. [Fulfilled in I Sam. 4:17, 18.]

1 Samuel 3:12

On that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end.

1 Samuel 4:21

And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel!–because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.