But my words and my statutes, which I Commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as YY -TZvaot thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which YY your Elohim promised you; so shall YY bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which YY your Elohim hath given you.
Elohim is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
And the messenger answered and said, Yisrael is fled before the Plishtim, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Pinchas, are dead, and the ark of Elohim is taken.
And she named the child Ikhavod, saying, The glory is departed from Yisrael: because the ark of Elohim was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.