Hophni and Phinehas were killed, and the sacred chest was captured.
But the people tested God Most High, and they refused to obey his laws.
Priests died violent deaths, but their widows were not allowed to mourn.
Tell those who disobey, “You're in big trouble— what you did to others will come back to you.”
Go to Shiloh, where my sacred tent once stood. Take a look at what I did there. My people Israel sinned, and so I destroyed Shiloh!
The time will come when I will kill you and everyone else in your family. Not one of you will live to an old age.
Your family will have a lot of trouble. I will be kind to Israel, but everyone in your family will die young.
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.”