1 Samuel 4:13

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

He went into town and told the news about the battle, and everyone started crying. Eli was afraid that something might happen to the sacred chest. So he was sitting on his chair beside the road, just waiting.

Cross References

Psalm 26:8

I love the temple where you live, and where your glory shines.

Jeremiah 48:19

You people of Aroer, wait beside the road, and when refugees run by, ask them, “What happened?”

Joshua 7:9

Everyone will think you weren't strong enough to protect your people. Now the Canaanites and everyone else who lives in the land will surround us and wipe us out.

1 Samuel 1:9

When the sacrifice had been offered, and they had eaten the meal, Hannah got up and went to pray. Eli was sitting in his chair near the door to the place of worship.

1 Samuel 4:14

He was ninety-eight years old and blind, but he could hear everyone crying, and he asked, “What's all that noise?” The soldier hurried over and told Eli,

1 Samuel 4:18

Eli was still sitting on a chair beside the wall of the town gate. And when the man said that the Philistines had taken the sacred chest, Eli fell backwards. He was a very heavy old man, and the fall broke his neck and killed him. He had been a leader of Israel for forty years.