1 Samuel 4:17

Young's Literal Translation 1898

And he who is bearing tidings answereth and saith, `Israel hath fled before the Philistines, and also a great slaughter hath been among the people, and also thy two sons have died--Hophni and Phinehas--and the ark of God hath been captured.'

Cross References

Psalm 78:61

And He giveth His strength to captivity, And His beauty into the hand of an adversary,

Psalm 78:64

His priests by the sword have fallen, And their widows weep not.

1 Samuel 2:34

and this is to thee the sign that cometh unto thy two sons, unto Hophni and Phinehas--in one day they die both of them;

1 Samuel 3:11

And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Lo, I am doing a thing in Israel, at which the two ears of every one hearing it do tingle.

1 Samuel 3:12

In that day I establish unto Eli all that I have spoken unto his house, beginning and completing;

1 Samuel 4:16

And the man saith unto Eli, `I am he who hath come out of the ranks, and I out of the ranks have fled to-day;' and he saith, `What hath been the matter, my son?'

1 Samuel 4:18

And it cometh to pass, at his mentioning the ark of God, that he falleth from off the throne backward, by the side of the gate, and his neck is broken, and he dieth, for the man is old and heavy, and he hath judged Israel forty years.