Eli heard the outcry and asked, “What is the meaning of this uproar?” The man hurried over to Eli,
Stand by the road and watch, you who live in Aroer. Ask the man fleeing and the woman escaping, ask them, ‘What has happened?’
When he arrived, there was Eli sitting on his chair by the side of the road, watching, because his heart feared for the ark of God. When the man entered the town and told what had happened, the whole town sent up a cry.
who was ninety-eight years old and whose eyes had failed so that he could not see.