Lessons From Israel's Past

⁶³ His young men, were devoured by fire, And, his virgins, were not praised in song; ⁶⁴ His priests, by the sword, did fall, And, his widows, were not able to bewail. ⁶⁵ Then awoke, as one that had slept, Adonay, As a warrior exulting with wine!

By the Sword

Put to Death

With The Sword

Hophni

No

Phinehas

1 Samuel 4:17

And the bearer of tidings answered, and said - Israel hath fled before the Philistines, Moreover also, a great smiting, hath taken place among the people, - Moreover also, thy two sons, are slain, Hophni and Phinehas, And, the ark of God, is taken.

Job 27:15

His survivors, by pestilence, shall come to the grave, and, his widows, shall not weep;

1 Samuel 4:11

And, the ark of God, was taken, - and, the two sons of Eli, were slain, Hophni and Phinehas.

Ezekiel 24:23

And your chaplets shall be on your heads. And your sandals on your feet, Ye shall neither lament, nor weep,- Yet shall ye pine away in your iniquities, and shall groan one to another.

1 Samuel 2:33-34

But, any man of thine whom I may not cut off from mine altar, it shall be - to consume his eyes, and grieve his soul; Howbeit, all the multitude of thy house, shall die, by the sword of men.

1 Samuel 4:19-20

Now, his daughter-in-law, wife of Phinehas, was with child, ready to give birth, and, when she heard the tidings, as to the taking of the ark of God, and the death of her father-in-law, and her husband, she bowed herself and gave birth, for her pains had seized her.

1 Samuel 22:18-19

Then said the king to Doeg, Turn, thou, and fall upon the priests. So Doeg the Edomite turned, and, himself, fell upon the priests, and put to death, that day, four score and five men bearing an ephod of linen;