22And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.
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If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. …
And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-22)We have here another melancholy story, that carries on the desolations of Eli’s house, and the sorrowful feeling which the tidings of the ark’s captivity excited. It is concerning the wife of Phinehas, one of those ungracious sons of Eli that had brought all this mischief on Israel. It cost her her life, though young, as well as that of her father-in-law, that was old; for many a green head, as we…
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