But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as Yahweh of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
El is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which Yahweh your Elohim promised you; so shall Yahweh bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which Yahweh your Elohim hath given you.
And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of Elohim is taken.
And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The honour is departed from Israel: because the ark of Elohim was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.