Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

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Bible References

Priests

1 Samuel 2:33
I shall not totally cut off all thy men from my altar to consume thine eyes and to grieve thy soul, and all the increase of thy house shall die as young men.
1 Samuel 4:11
And the ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
1 Samuel 22:18
Then the king said to Doeg, Turn thou and fall upon the priests. And Doeg, the Edomite, turned and he fell upon the priests and slew on that day eighty-five men that wore a linen ephod.

Widows

1 Samuel 4:19
And his daughter-in-law, Phinehas's wife, was with child, near to be delivered, and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed, for her pains had come upon her.
Job 27:15
Those that remain of him shall be buried in death; and their widows shall not weep.
Ezekiel 24:23
And your turbans shall be upon your heads and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities and cry out one with another.

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Ezekiel 24:22
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips nor eat the bread of men.