Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
Priests
Widows
General references
Bible References
Priests
1 Samuel 2:33
Any man from your family I do not cut off from My altar will bring grief and sadness to you. All your descendants will die violently.
1 Samuel 4:11
The ark of God was captured, and Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.
1 Samuel 22:18
So the king said to Doeg, “Go and execute the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite went and executed the priests himself. On that day, he killed 85 men who wore linen ephods.
Widows
1 Samuel 4:19
Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news about the capture of God’s ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth because her labor pains came on her.
Job 27:15 Those who survive him will be buried by the plague,
yet their widows will not weep for them.
yet their widows will not weep for them.
Ezekiel 24:23
Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not lament or weep but will waste away because of your sins and will groan to one another.
General references
Ezekiel 24:22
Then you will do just as I have done: You will not cover your mustache or eat the bread of mourners.