Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

Bible References

When he made

1 Samuel 4:21
And she named the child I-chabod, saying, The glory hath departed from Israel. (Because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.)
Psalm 26:8
LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thy honor dwelleth.
Psalm 42:3
My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is thy God?
Psalm 69:9
For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee have fallen upon me.
Lamentations 2:15
All that pass by, clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call the Perfection of beauty, the Joy of the whole earth?

His neck

1 Samuel 2:31
Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thy arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thy house.
1 Samuel 3:12
In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.
Leviticus 10:3
Then Moses said to Aaron, This is what the LORD spoke, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
1 Corinthians 11:30
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
1 Peter 4:17
For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first beginneth at us, what will be the end of them that obey not the gospel of God?