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
Yet will I will not root out every man of thee from mine altar, but that thine eyes may be consumed, and thy soul may be sorry. And a great multitude of thine house shall die young.
1 Samuel 4:11
And the ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas were dead.
1 Samuel 22:18
Then said the king to Doeg, "Turn thou and smite the priests." And Doeg the Edomite turned and ran upon the priests, and slew that same day four score and five persons that did wear each man a linen ephod.
Widows
1 Samuel 4:19
And his daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child and nigh the birth. And when she heard the tidings of the taking of the ark of God, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her.
Job 27:15
Look, whom he leaveth behind him, they shall die and be buried, and no man shall have pity of his widows.
Ezekiel 24:23
your bonnets shall ye have upon your heads, and shoes upon your feet. Ye shall neither mourn nor weep, but in your sins ye shall be sorrowful, and one repent with another.
General references
Ezekiel 24:22
Like as I have done, so shall ye do also: Ye shall not hide your faces, ye shall eat no mourner's bread;