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15 Eli was by this time 98 years old and blind.

Benjaminite Messenger: 16 I have just come from the battle. I fled the front lines to escape with my life.

Eli: How did the battle go, my son?

Benjaminite Messenger: 17 Many of the people were slaughtered, and Israel has fled from the Philistines. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the covenant chest of the True God is captured.

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