The Lord of hosts saith these things, Yet eld [or old] men and eld [or old] women shall dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and the staff of a man shall be in his hand, for the multitude of years.
Nevertheless I shall not utterly take away of thee a man from mine altar, but that thine eyes fail, and thy soul fail or thy life languish; and a great part of thine house shall die, when it shall come to man’s age.
Therefore the people sent into Shiloh, and they took from thence the ark of the bond of peace of the Lord of hosts, that sat on cherubim. And Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were with the ark of the bond of peace of the Lord.