Berean Standard Bible

1 Samuel 4:16

““I have just come from the battle,” the man said to Eli. “I fled from there today.” “What happened, my son?” Eli asked.”

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¹⁴Eli heard the outcry and asked, “Why this commotion?” So the man hurried over and reported to Eli.

¹⁵Now Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his gaze was fixed because he could not see.

¹⁶“I have just come from the battle,” the man said to Eli. “I fled from there today.” “What happened, my son?” Eli asked.

¹⁷The messenger answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”

¹⁸As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.

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