1 Samuel 4:17

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

And he bearing tidings will answer and say, Israel fled before Philisteim, and also a great slaughter was among the people, and also thy two sons died, Hophni and Phinehas; and the ark of God was taken.

Cross References

Psalm 78:61

And he will give his strength to captivity, and his beauty into the hand of the enemy.

Psalm 78:64

His priests fell by the sword, and his widows wept not

1 Samuel 2:34

And this the sign to thee which shall come to thy two sons to Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they two shall die.

1 Samuel 3:11

And Jehovah will say to Samuel, Behold, I do a word in Israel which every one hearing it his two ears shall tingle.

1 Samuel 3:12

In that day I will set up all against Eli which I spake against his house, beginning and finishing.

1 Samuel 4:16

And the man will say to Eli, I came from the array, and I fled from the array this day; And he will say, What was the word, my son?

1 Samuel 4:18

And it will be when he made mention of the ark of God, and he will fall from off the seat backwards by the side of the gate, and his neck will break, and he will die: for he was an old Man and heavy. And he judged Israel forty years.