Psalm 78:64

Lessons From Israel's Past

⁶³ The fire consumed their young men; and their virgins were not honored in marriage songs. ⁶⁴ His priests fell by the sword,
And His widows could not weep.
⁶⁵ Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep and like a mighty man that shouts by reason of wine.

By the Sword

Put to Death

With The Sword

Hophni

No

Phinehas

1 Samuel 4:17

And the messenger answered and said, Israel fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God was taken.

Job 27:15

Those that remain of him shall be buried in death; and their widows shall not weep.

1 Samuel 4:11

And the ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

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.

1 Samuel 2:33-34

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 4:19-20

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.

1 Samuel 22:18-19

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.