1 Samuel 4:18

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And when he made mention of the arke of God, Eli fell from of his stoole backward by the side of the gate, and his necke brake, and he dyed: For he was an olde man and heauy, and iudged Israel fourtie yeres?

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  • 1 Sam 4:21-22 : 21 And she named the childe Ichabod, saying: The glorie is departed fro Israel, (because the arke of God was taken, and because of her father in lawe and her husband.) 22 And she saide againe: The glorie is gone from Israel, for the arke of God is taken.
  • 1 Sam 4:13 : 13 And when he came, lo, Eli sat vpon a stoole by the way side, wayting: for his heart feared for the arke of God. And when the man came into the citie, and tolde it, all the citie cryed.
  • 1 Pet 4:17-18 : 17 For the tyme is come that iudgement must begin at the house of God. Yf it first begin at vs, what shall the ende be of them whiche beleue not the Gospell of God? 18 And if the ryghteous scacely be saued, where shall the vngodly and the sinner appeare?
  • Lev 10:3 : 3 Then Moyses sayde vnto Aaron: This is it that the Lorde spake, saying: I wyll be sanctified in them that come nye me, and before all the people I wylbe glorified. And Aaron helde his peace.
  • 1 Sam 2:31-32 : 31 Behold, the dayes come, that I wyll cut of thine arme, and the arme of thy fathers house, that there shall not be an olde man in thine house. 32 And thou shalt see thine enemie in the habitation of the Lorde and in all the wealth which God shall geue Israel, and there shall not be an olde man in thyne house for euer.
  • 1 Sam 3:12-13 : 12 In that day, I wyll rayse vp against Eli all thynges whiche I haue spoken concernyng his house: when I begyn, I wyll also make an ende. 13 I haue tolde hym that I wyll iudge his house for euer, for the wickednesse which he knoweth: For whe the people cursed his sonnes for ye same wickednesse he hath not corrected them.
  • Ps 26:8 : 8 O God, I haue loued the habitation of thine house: and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
  • Ps 42:3 : 3 My teares haue ben my meate day and nyght: whyle they dayly say vnto me where is nowe thy God.
  • Ps 42:10 : 10 It was as a sworde in my bones, when myne enemies dyd cast me in the teeth: in saying dayly vnto me, where is nowe thy Lorde?
  • Ps 69:9 : 9 For the zeale of thine house hath euen eaten me: and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee, are fallen vpon me.
  • Lam 2:15-19 : 15 All they that go by thee, clappe their handes at thee, hissing and wagging their heades vpon the daughter Hierusalem and say Is this the citie that men call so faire, wherein the whole lande reioyceth? 16 All thyne enemies gape vpon thee, whispering and grinding their teeth, saying: let vs deuour, for the tyme that we looked for is come, we haue founde and seene it. 17 The Lorde hath fulfilled the thing that he was purposed to do, and perfourmed that he had deuised long ago: he hath destroyed and not spared, he hath caused thyne aduersarie to triumph ouer thee, and set vp the horne of thyne enemie. 18 Their heart cryed vnto the Lorde, O thou citie of the daughter Sion: let thy teares runne downe like a riuer day and night, rest not, and let not the apple of thyne eye leaue of. 19 Stand vp, and make thy prayer in the first watche of the night, powre out thine heart like water before the Lord: lift vp thyne handes for the liues of thy young chyldren that dye of hunger in the streetes.
  • 1 Cor 11:30-32 : 30 For this cause many are weake and sicke among you, and many slepe. 31 For yf we woulde iudge our selues, we shoulde not be iudged. 32 But when we are iudged, we are chastened of the Lorde, that we shoulde not be dampned with the worlde.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 4:10-17
    8 verses
    78%

    10And 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.

    11And the arke of God was taken, and the two sonnes of Eli, Hophni & Phinehes, were dead.

    12And there ran a man of Beniamin out of the armie, and came to Silo the same day with his clothes rent, and earth vpon his head.

    13And when he came, lo, Eli sat vpon a stoole by the way side, wayting: for his heart feared for the arke of God. And when the man came into the citie, and tolde it, all the citie cryed.

    14And when Eli heard the noyse of the crying, he saide: What meaneth this noyse of the tumult? And the man came in hastyly, and tolde Eli.

    15Eli was 98 yeres olde, & his sight failed, him that he could not see.

    16And the man said vnto Eli: I am he that came out of the armie, & fled this day out of the hoast. And he said: What thing is done my sonne?

    17The 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.

  • 1 Sam 4:19-22
    4 verses
    76%

    19And his daughter in lawe Phinehes wyfe was with childe, and nye the birth: And when she heard the tidinges that the arke of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed her selfe, and trauayled, for her paynes came vpon her.

    20And about the tyme of her death, the women that stoode about her, saide vnto her: Feare not, for thou hast borne a sonne. But she aunswered not, nor regarded it.

    21And she named the childe Ichabod, saying: The glorie is departed fro Israel, (because the arke of God was taken, and because of her father in lawe and her husband.)

    22And she saide againe: The glorie is gone from Israel, for the arke of God is taken.

  • 1 Sam 3:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2And as at that tyme Eli lay in his place, his eyes began to waxe dymme that he coulde not see.

    3And yet the lampe of God went out, Samuel layde hym downe to sleepe in the temple of the Lord, where the arke of God was.

  • 1 Sam 4:2-5
    4 verses
    71%

    2And put them selues in aray against Israel: and when they ioyned the battell, Israel was smytten downe before the Philistines, and the Philistines slue of the armie in the fielde about a foure thousand men.

    3And when the people were come into their tentes, the elders of Israel sayde: Wherfore hath the Lorde caste vs downe this day before the Philistines? let vs fetch the arke of the appoyntmet of the Lorde out of Silo vnto vs, that when it cometh among vs, it may saue vs out of the hand of our enemies.

    4And so the people went to Silo, and fet from thence the arke of the appoyntment of the Lorde of hoastes, which dwelleth betweene the cherubims: And there wer the two sonnes of Eli, Hophni and Phinehes, with the arke of the appoyntment of God.

    5And when the arke of the appoyntment of the Lorde came into the hoast, all Israel showted a mightie showte, so that the earth rang againe.

  • 1 Sam 6:19
    70%

    19And he smote of the men of Bethsames, because they had loked in the arke of the Lorde, and he slue among the people fiftie thousand and three score and ten men: And the people lamented, because the Lorde had slaine the people with so great a slaughter.

  • 1 Chr 13:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9And when they came vnto the thresshing floore of Chidon, Uzza put foorth his hande to holde the arke, for the oxen stumbled.

    10And the Lorde was wroth with Uzza, and smote him, because he put his hand to the arke: and there he dyed before God.

  • 1 Sam 2:22-23
    2 verses
    69%

    22Eli was very olde, and heard all that his sonnes did vnto Israel, & how they lay with the women that wayted at the doore of the tabernacle of the congregation.

    23And he saide vnto them: Why do ye such thinges? For of all these people I heare euill reportes of you.

  • 1 Sam 5:9-12
    4 verses
    68%

    9And when they had caryed it about, the hand of the Lorde was agaynst the citie with a very great destruction, and he smote the men of the citie both small and great, and they had emerodes in their secrete partes.

    10Therfore they sent the arke of God to Acaron: and assoone as the arke of God came to Acaron, the Acaronites cryed out, saying: They haue brought the arke of the God of Israel to vs, to slea vs, and our people.

    11And so they sent, and gathered together al the lordes of the Philistines, and saide: Send away the arke of the God of Israel, to go agayne to his owne place, that it slea vs not, and our people. For there was a destruction and death thorowout all the citie, and the hand of God was exceeding sore there.

    12And the men that dyed not, were smitten with the emerodes: And the crye of the citie went vp to heauen.

  • 2 Sam 6:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6And when they came to Nachons thresshing floore, Uzza put his hand to the arke of God, & helde it, for the oxen did shake it.

    7And the Lord was wroth with Uzza, and God smote him in the same place for his fault, and there he died before the arke of God.

  • 1 Sam 3:13-14
    2 verses
    67%

    13I haue tolde hym that I wyll iudge his house for euer, for the wickednesse which he knoweth: For whe the people cursed his sonnes for ye same wickednesse he hath not corrected them.

    14And therfore I haue sworne vnto the house of Eli, that the wickednesse of Elies house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offeryng for euer.

  • 1 Kgs 2:26
    67%

    26And vnto Abiathar the priest sayd the king: Get thee to Anatoth vnto thine owne fieldes, for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time kill thee, because thou barest the arke of the Lorde God before Dauid my father, and because thou hast suffered with my father in all his afflictions.

  • 2 Kgs 7:20
    67%

    20And euen so chaunced it vnto him: For the people trode vpon him in the gate, and he dyed.

  • 2 Kgs 1:16-17
    2 verses
    67%

    16And he saide vnto him, thus saith the Lorde: Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to aske counsell at Beelzebub the god of Ekrom, as though there had ben no God in Israel, whose word thou mightest seeke after: therfore thou shalt not come downe of the bed on which thou art gone vp, but shalt dye the death.

    17And so he dyed according to the worde of the Lorde which Elias had spoken: And Iehoram his brother began to raigne in his steade, in the second yere of Iehoram the sonne of Iehosaphat king of Iuda, because he had no sonne.

  • 2 Kgs 4:20
    67%

    20And when he had taken him & brought him to his mother, he sate on her knees till noone, and then dyed.

  • 1 Sam 5:4
    66%

    4And when they were come earlie in the next morning, beholde, Dagon was fallen vpon his face on the grounde before the arke of the Lorde, and his head and his two handes cut of vpon the thresholde, that onely the stumpe of Dagon was left to him.

  • 1 Sam 5:7
    66%

    7And when the men of Asdod sawe that it was so, they saide: The arke of the God of Israel shal not abide here with vs, for his hand is sore vpon vs, & vpon Dagon our God.

  • 1 Sam 7:2
    66%

    2And while the arke abode in Kiriathiarim, the tyme was long, for it was twentie yeres: & all the house of Israel lamented after the Lorde.

  • 1 Sam 2:33
    66%

    33Neuerthelesse, I wyll not destroy euery one that come of thee from mine aulter, to make thine eyes to fayle, and to make thine heart sorowfull: And all they that be multiplied in thine house, shall dye when they be men.

  • 1 Sam 22:18
    66%

    18And the king sayde to Doeg: Turne thou, & fall vpon the priestes. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and ranne vpon the priestes, & slue that same day fourescore and fiue persons that did weare a linnen Ephod.

  • 1 Sam 14:18
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    18And Saul sayd vnto Ahia: Bring hyther the arke of God. (For the arke of God was at time with the children of Israel.)

  • 1 Sam 22:16
    66%

    16The king sayde, Thou shalt surely die Ahimelech, thou, & al thy fathers house.

  • Judg 15:20
    65%

    20And he iudged Israel in the dayes of the Philistines, twentie yeres.

  • 2 Kgs 4:32
    65%

    32And when Elisa was come into the house, behold the childe was dead, and layde vpon his bed.

  • 1 Sam 8:1
    65%

    1When Samuel was old, he made his sonnes iudges ouer Israel.

  • Judg 16:30
    65%

    30And Samson sayde: My soule shall dye with the Philistines, and bowed them with all his myght, and the house fell vpon the lordes and vpon all the people that were therin: And so ye dead which he slue at his death, were mo then they which he slue in his lyfe.

  • 1 Sam 31:8
    65%

    8On the morow when the Philistines were come to spoyle them that were slaine, they founde Saul and his three sonnes lying in mount Gilboa.

  • 1 Sam 1:25
    65%

    25And they slue a bulloke, and brought in the lad to Eli.