Psalm 78:64

Lessons From Israel's Past

⁶³ Their young men were burned in the fire; and their virgins were not praised in the bride-song. ⁶⁴ Their priests were put to death by the sword, and their widows made no weeping for them. ⁶⁵ Then was the Lord like one awaking from sleep, and like a strong man crying out because of wine.

By the Sword

Put to Death

With The Sword

Hophni

No

Phinehas

1 Samuel 4:17

And the man said, Israel went in flight from the Philistines, and there has been great destruction among the people, and your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been taken.

Job 27:15

When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.

1 Samuel 4:11

And the ark of God was taken; and Hophni and Phinehas, the sons of Eli, were put to the sword.

Ezekiel 24:23

And your head-dresses will be on your heads and your shoes on your feet: there will be no sorrow or weeping; but you will be wasting away in the punishment of your evil-doing, and you will be looking at one another in wonder.

1 Samuel 2:33-34

But one man of your family will not be cut off by my hand, and his eyes will be made dark, and grief will be in his heart: and all the offspring of your family will come to their end by the sword of men.

1 Samuel 4:19-20

And his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was with child and near the time when she would give birth; and when she had the news that the ark of God had been taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, her pains came on her suddenly and she gave birth.

1 Samuel 22:18-19

Then the king said to Doeg, You are to put the priests to death. And Doeg the Edomite, turning on the priests and attacking them, put to death that day eighty-five men who took up the ephod.