1 Samuel 4:15

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Dim - Rather, “set.” The word is quite different from that so rendered in 1 Samuel 3:2 . The phrase seems to express the “fixed” state of the bl...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Death of Eli, Birth of Ichabod. 1 Samuel 4:12 . clothes rent, etc.: signs of mourning. 1 Samuel 4:18 . forty; LXX twenty. And he ... years...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

were dim . were set, as in 1 Kings 14:4 . could not see . One of the nine cases of blindness. See note on Genesis 19:11 .
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What meaneth the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily, and told Eli. No JFB...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Capture of the Ark by the Philistines. Death of Eli The reason which led to 1 Samuel 4:1 ; being detached from its proper context is that without...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ninety and eight ] This number is interesting as showing how mistakes arise. In the original it was denoted by two letters. The LXX, losing sight o...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ninety and eight years old. — The LXX. here reads “ninety” years, the Syriac Version “seventy eight.” In the sacred text, where numbers are concern...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER VI. THE ARK OF GOD TAKEN BY THE PHILISTINES . 1 Samuel 4:1-22 . WE are liable to form an erroneous impression of the connection of Samu...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Glory Departed from Israel 1 Samuel 4:12-22 Notwithstanding their high hopes, disaster again overtook the hosts of Israel. No symbols of Go...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The crisis of judgment foretold by Samuel to Eli now arrived. It was a Philistine attack on the people, in which large numbers were slain, among them...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(12) В¶ And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head. (13) An...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Now Eli was ninety eight years old ,.... Which is very properly observed, he being now come to the end of his days, and which also accounts for his...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see. Ver. 15. And his eyes were dim. ] Heb., Stood. They were shr...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Verse 1 shows that Samuel did not conceal the word that God gave to him, but communicated it to all Israel. But it is not said that it was this word...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Death of Eli. B. C. 1120. 12 And...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

News Is Brought To Shiloh Of The Capture Of The Ark Of YHWH And The Death Of Eli's Two Sons ( 1 Samuel 4:11-17 ). The devastating news now comes t...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 4:13 . “Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside.” “This sitting on the side of the way by which the first me...
Sermon Bible Commentary

1 Samuel 1-4 (with Judges 21:16-25 ) I. With all his virtues and natural advantages Eli had one great fault. He was a good man of the easy typ...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 4:5 . Israel shouted. But why had they not put away their sins? And why had they not enquired of God? Alas, these priests, like Saul in h...
The Biblical Illustrator

And the Philistines fought and Israel was smitten. The Harvest of Sin This story tells of a harvest that had long been predicted, and that at l...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 1 Samuel 4:1 And the word of Samuel... all Israel. This clause is rightly connected with the foregoing verse of the previous c...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Death of Eli and of his Daughter-In-Law
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Now, Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim that he could not see; they were set in the lifeless, motionless appearance found in t...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 3:2 ; Genesis 27:1 ; Psalms 90:10
Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Ark Taken by the Philistines 1 Samuel 4:1-22 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We would like to suggest something of the history of the Ark of the Covena...

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

Related Commentaries of 1 Samuel 4:15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

1 Samuel 4:15