17 Then the messenger answered, and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people: and moreover thy two sons, Hophni and Phinehas [a]are dead, and the Ark of God is taken.

18 ¶ And when he had made mention of the Ark of God, Eli fell from his seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken, and he died: for he was an old man and heavy: and he had [b]judged Israel forty years.

19 And his daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near [c]her travail: and when she heard the report that the Ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she [d]bowed herself, and travailed: for her pains came upon her.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 4:17 According as God had afore said.
  2. 1 Samuel 4:18 Or, governed.
  3. 1 Samuel 4:19 Or, to cry out.
  4. 1 Samuel 4:19 And settled her body toward her travail.

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