The ark of God was captured, and Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were dead. Death of Eli.
But they tested and rebelled against God Most High, his decrees they did not observe.
Their priests fell by the sword; their widows made no lamentation.
Woe to the wicked! It will go ill with them, with the work of their hands they will be repaid.
Go to my place at Shiloh, where I made my name dwell in the beginning. See what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.
Yes, the days are coming when I will break your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that no one in your family lives to old age.
You shall witness, like a disappointed rival, all the benefits enjoyed by Israel, but no member of your household shall ever grow old.
This is a sign for you—what happens to your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas. Both of them will die on the same day.
On that day I will carry out against Eli everything I have said about his house, beginning to end.
She named the child Ichabod, saying, “Gone is the glory from Israel,” referring to the capture of the ark of God and to her father-in-law and her husband.