1 Samuel 3:2; Genesis 27:1; Psalms 90:10
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...
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...
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 .
Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.
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...
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...
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...
Ninety and eight years old. — The LXX. here reads “ninety” years, the Syriac Version “seventy eight.” In the sacred text, where numbers are concern...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
The Death of Eli. B. C. 1120. 12 And...
No text from Poole on this verse.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Death of Eli and of his Daughter-In-Law
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...
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.