1 Samuel 4:17

Legacy Standard Bible

Then the one who brought the news answered and said, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has also been a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been taken.”

Cross References

Psalm 78:61

And gave up His strength to captivity And His beauty into the hand of the adversary.

Psalm 78:64

His priests fell by the sword, And His widows could not weep.

1 Samuel 2:34

Now this will be the sign to you which will come concerning your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: on the same day both of them will be put to death.

1 Samuel 3:11

And Yahweh said to Samuel, “Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel at which both ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.

1 Samuel 3:12

In that day I will establish against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end.

1 Samuel 4:16

And the man said to Eli, “I am the one who came from the battle line. Indeed, I fled from the battle line today.” And he said, “How did things go, my son?”

1 Samuel 4:18

And it happened that when he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell off the seat backward beside the gate, and his neck was broken, and he died, for the man was old and heavy. Thus he judged Israel forty years.