1 Samuel 4:18

Legacy Standard Bible

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.

Cross References

Psalm 26:8

¶O Yahweh, I love the habitation of Your house And the place where Your glory dwells.

Psalm 42:10

As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries reproach me, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 69:9

For zeal for Your house has consumed me, And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.

Leviticus 10:3

Then Moses said to Aaron, “It is what Yahweh spoke, saying, ‘By those who come near Me I will be treated as holy, And before all the people I will be glorified.’ ” So Aaron kept silent.

Judges 15:20

And he judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

1 Samuel 4:13

And he came, and behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road eagerly watching because his heart was trembling for the ark of God. Now the man came to tell it in the city, and all the city cried out.

1 Samuel 4:17

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.”

1 Samuel 4:19

Now his daughter-in-law, Phinehas’s wife, was with child and about to give birth. And she heard the report that the ark of God was taken and that her father-in-law and her husband had died, so she kneeled down and gave birth, for her pains came upon her.