1 Samuel 4:18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell over backward from his seat by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

Cross References

Psalm 26:8

O Lord, I love the house in which you dwell and the place where your glory abides.

Psalm 42:10

As with a deadly wound in my body, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me continually, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me continually, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 69:9

It is zeal for your house that has consumed me; the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.

Leviticus 10:3

Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord meant when he said, ‘Through those who are near me I will show myself holy, and before all the people I will be glorified.’ ” And Aaron was silent.

Judges 15:20

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

1 Samuel 4:13

When he arrived, Eli was sitting upon his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for the ark of God. When the man came into the city and told the news, all the city cried out.

1 Samuel 4:17

The messenger replied, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has also been a great slaughter among the troops; your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”

1 Samuel 4:19

Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant, about to give birth. When she heard the news that the ark of God was captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed and gave birth, for her labor pains overwhelmed her.