(SEE 4:21)
Priests died violent deaths, but their widows were not allowed to mourn.
The Lord was angry! So he disgraced Zion though it was Israel's pride and his own place of rest. In his anger he threw Zion down from heaven to earth.
The disciples then remembered that the Scriptures say, "My love for your house burns in me like a fire."
To prove to you that I will do these things, your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will die on the same day.
I will punish Eli and his family, just as I promised.
Instead she kept thinking about losing her husband and her father-in-law. So she said, "My son will be named Ichabod, because the glory of Israel left our country when the sacred chest was captured."
The Philistines took the sacred chest from near Ebenezer to the town of Ashdod.
