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
The only one of you whom I shall not cut off from my altar shall be spared to weep his eyes out to grieve his heart, and all the descendants of your house shall die by the sword of men.
1 Samuel 4:11
And the ark of God was captured, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.
1 Samuel 22:18
Then the king said to Doeg, "You turn and strike the priests." And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod.
Widows
1 Samuel 4:19
Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant, about to give birth. And when she heard the news that the ark of God was captured, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed and gave birth, for her pains came upon her.
Job 27:15
Those who survive him the pestilence buries, and his widows do not weep.
Ezekiel 24:23
Your turbans shall be on your heads and your shoes on your feet; you shall not mourn or weep, but you shall rot away in your iniquities and groan to one another.
General references
Ezekiel 24:22
And you shall do as I have done; you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.