“What is all the noise about?” Eli asked. The messenger rushed over to Eli,
You people of Aroer, stand beside the road and watch. Shout to those who flee from Moab, ‘What has happened there?’
Eli was waiting beside the road to hear the news of the battle, for his heart trembled for the safety of the Ark of God. When the messenger arrived and told what had happened, an outcry resounded throughout the town.
who was ninety-eight years old and blind.