Answereth Ark Army Bearing Captured Dead Destruction Died Fled Flight Heavy Hophni Losses Messenger News Philistines Phinehas Phin'ehas Replied Slaughter Sons Suffered Tidings
4:17 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, {b} are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
(b) According as God had said before.
4:12-18 The defeat of the army was very grievous to Eli as a judge; the tidings of the death of his two sons, to whom he had been so indulgent, and who, as he had reason to fear, died impenitent, touched him as a father; yet there was a greater concern on his spirit. And when the messenger concluded his story with, The ark of God is taken, he is struck to the heart, and died immediately. A man may die miserably, yet not die eternally; may come to an untimely end, yet the end be peace.
Ark Dead Hophni Israel Messenger News Philistines Phinehas Slaughter Tidings
Ark Dead Hophni Israel Messenger News Philistines Phinehas Slaughter Tidings
