She said, “Israel’s glory has been taken away” because the Philistines had taken God’s Holy Box.
The priests were killed,\par but the widows did not cry for them.\par
Look how the Lord has set\par the Daughter of Zion {\cf2\super [8]} under a cloud.\par He has thrown the glory of Israel\par from the sky to the ground.\par The Lord didn’t keep in mind that Israel was his footstool,\par on the day of his anger.\par
When this happened the followers of Jesus remembered what was written \{in the Scriptures {\cf2\super [40]} \}:
I will give you a sign {to show these things will come true}. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will die on the same day.
I will do everything I said I would do against Eli and his family. I will do everything from the beginning to the end.
And the Lord continued to appear to Samuel at Shiloh. The Lord revealed himself to Samuel as the word of the Lord. [39]
The Philistines carried God’s Holy Box, [55] from Ebenezer to Ashdod.