Verse 17

The messenger aunswered, and said: Israel is fled before the Philistines, & there hath ben a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sonnes Hophni and Phinehes are dead, and the arke of God is taken.

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 3:11 : 11 And the Lorde saide to Samuel: Beholde, I wyll do a thing in Israel, that both the eares of as many as heareth it shall tyngle.
• 1 Sam 4:10-11 : 10 And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten downe, and fled euery man into his tent: And there was an exceeding great slaughter, for there were ouerthrowen of Israel thirtie thousand footemen. 11 And the arke of God was taken, and the two sonnes of Eli, Hophni & Phinehes, were dead.