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 I will keep one of your descendants alive. He will serve me as priest. But he will become blind and lose all hope. All your other descendants will die in the prime of life.
1 Samuel 4:11
The Ark of the Covenant was captured. Eli's two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.
1 Samuel 22:18
The king said to Doeg: You turn around and attack the priests. Doeg the Edomite turned around and attacked the priests. That day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.
Widows
1 Samuel 4:19
Eli's daughter-in-law the wife of Phinehas was pregnant. It was almost time for her baby to be born. When she heard that God's Ark of the Covenant was captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she suddenly went into labor and gave birth.
Job 27:15
The plague will bury those who survive him. Their widows will not weep for them.
Ezekiel 24:23
'Your turbans will be on your heads and your shoes on your feet. You will not mourn and you will not weep. You will rot away in your iniquities and you will groan to one another.
General references
Ezekiel 24:22
You will do as I have done. You will not cover your mustache and you will not eat the bread of men.