1 Samuel 3:2

God's Word

One night Eli was lying down in his room. His eyesight had begun to fail so that he couldn’t see well.

Cross References

Genesis 27:1

When Isaac was old and going blind, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “Son!” Esau answered, “Here I am.”

Genesis 48:10

Israel’s eyesight was failing because of old age, and he could hardly see. So Joseph brought his sons close to his father, and Israel hugged them and kissed them.

Genesis 48:19

His father refused and said, “I know, Son, I know! Manasseh, too, will become a nation, and he, too, will be important. Nevertheless, his younger brother will be more important than he, and his descendants will become many nations.”

1 Kings 14:4

Jeroboam’s wife did this. She left, went to Shiloh, and came to the home of Ahijah. Ahijah couldn’t see. His eyesight had failed because he was old.

Psalm 90:10

Each of us lives for 70 years— or even 80 if we are in good health. But the best of them ⌞bring⌟ trouble and misery. Indeed, they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Ecclesiastes 12:3

Remember your Creator when those who guard the house tremble, strong men are stooped over, the women at the mill stop grinding because there are so few of them, ⌞and⌟ those who look out of the windows see a dim light.

1 Samuel 2:22

Now, Eli was very old, and he had heard everything that his sons were doing to all Israel and that they were sleeping with the women who served at the gate of the tent of meeting.

1 Samuel 4:15

(Eli was 98 years old, and his eyesight had failed so that he couldn’t see.)