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
The man of yours, whom I shall not cut off from my altar, shall consume your eyes, and grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age.
1 Samuel 4:11
The ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
1 Samuel 22:18
The king said to Doeg, "Turn and attack the priests." Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.

Widows

1 Samuel 4:19
His daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered. When she heard the news that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and gave birth; for her pains came on her.
Job 27:15
Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.
Ezekiel 24:23
Your turbans shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet: you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.

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