And all the men of Israel in the valley saw that they had fled, and that Saul and his sons had died. And they forsook their cities and fled. And the Philistines came and lived in them.
And it happened when he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell off the seat backward, by the side of the gate. And his neck was broken, and he died. For the man was old and heavy. And he judged Israel forty years.