1 Samuel 4:15

New American Bible - revised edition

Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes would not focus. So he could not see.

Cross References

Genesis 27:1

When Isaac was so old that his eyesight had failed him, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son!” “Here I am!” he replied.

1 Kings 14:4

The wife of Jeroboam did so. She left and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see because age had dimmed his sight.

Psalm 90:10

Seventy is the sum of our years, or eighty, if we are strong; Most of them are toil and sorrow; they pass quickly, and we are gone.

1 Samuel 3:2

One day Eli was asleep in his usual place. His eyes had lately grown so weak that he could not see.

1 Samuel 4:14

When Eli heard the uproar, he wondered why there was such commotion. Just then the man rushed up to inform him.