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64Their priests fell{H8804)} by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation{H8799)}.
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Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
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, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 40-72)The matter and scope of this paragraph are the same with the former, showing what great mercies God had bestowed upon Israel, how provoking they had been, what judgments he had brought upon them for their sins, and yet how, in judgment, he remembered mercy at last. Let not those that receive mercy from God be thereby emboldened to sin, for the mercies they receive will aggravate their sin and hast…
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