“Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live, enter, and take possession of the land Yahweh, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

Eli's eyes had begun to fail, so that he was unable to see well. At that time he was lying down in his place,

As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.

And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?

yet I am glad now, not because you were hurt and made sorry, but because your sorrow led to repentance [and you turned back to God]; for you felt a grief such as God meant you to feel, so that you might not suffer loss in anything on our account.