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15Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.

1 Samuel 4:15

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 12-18)

Tidings are here brought to Shiloh of the fatal issue of their battle with the Philistines. Bad news flies fast. This soon spread through all Israel; every man that fled to his tent brought it, with too plain a proof of it, to his neighbours. But no place was so nearly concerned as Shiloh. Thither therefore an express posted away immediately; it was a man of Benjamin; the Jews fancy it was Saul. H...

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