Psalm 78:64

Lessons From Israel's Past

⁶³ Fire devoured His young men,
And His virgins had no wedding songs.
⁶⁴ His priests fell by the sword,
And His widows could not weep.
⁶⁵ Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep,
Like a warrior overcome by wine.

By the Sword

Put to Death

With The Sword

Hophni

No

Phinehas

1 Samuel 4:17

Then the one who brought the news replied, “Israel has fled before the Philistines and there has also been a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been taken.”

Job 27:15

“His survivors will be buried because of the plague,
And their widows will not be able to weep.

1 Samuel 4:11

And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.

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, but you will rot away in your iniquities and you will groan to one another.

1 Samuel 2:33-34

Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from My altar so that your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul grieve, and all the increase of your house will die in the prime of life.

1 Samuel 4:19-20

Now his daughter-in-law, Phinehas’s wife, was pregnant and about to give birth; and when she heard the news that the ark of God was taken and that her father-in-law and her husband had died, she kneeled down and gave birth, for her pains came upon her.

1 Samuel 22:18-19

Then the king said to Doeg, “You turn around and attack the priests.” And Doeg the Edomite turned around and attacked the priests, and he killed that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.