1 Samuel 4:15
Now Eli was ninety-eight years old; and his eyes were set, so that he could not see.
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Referenced Verses
- 1 Sam 3:2 : 2 It happened at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see),
- 1 Kgs 14:4 : 4 Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
- Ps 90:10 : 10 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
- Gen 27:1 : 1 It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am."
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- 1 Sam 3:1-33 verses85%
1 The child Samuel ministered to Yahweh before Eli. The word of Yahweh was precious in those days; there was no frequent vision.
2 It happened at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see),
3 and the lamp of God hadn't yet gone out, and Samuel had laid down [to sleep], in the temple of Yahweh, where the ark of God was;
- 1 Sam 4:11-144 verses76%
11 The ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
12 There ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn, and with earth on his head.
13 When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching; for his heart trembled for the ark of God. When the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.
14 When Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, "What does the noise of this tumult mean?" The man hurried, and came and told Eli.
- 1 Sam 4:16-183 verses74%
16 The man said to Eli, "I am he who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army." He said, "How did the matter go, my son?"
17 He who brought the news answered, "Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured."
18 It happened, when he made mention of the ark of God, that Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died; for he was an old man, and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.
- 1 Sam 3:14-163 verses70%
14 Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be removed with sacrifice nor offering forever."
15 Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of Yahweh. Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.
16 Then Eli called Samuel, and said, "Samuel, my son!" He said, "Here I am."
- 1 Sam 2:22-232 verses70%
22 Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they lay with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
23 He said to them, "Why do you do such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.
- Gen 27:1-22 verses70%
1 It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am."
2 He said, "See now, I am old. I don't know the day of my death.
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10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn't see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
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35 I am this day eighty years old. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?
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9 of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brothers eighty;
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4 Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
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7 Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
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15 But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died; one hundred thirty years old was he when he died.
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2 Now, behold, the king walks before you; and I am old and gray-headed; and behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my youth to this day.
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33 The man of yours, [whom] I shall not cut off from my altar, [shall be] to consume your eyes, and to grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age.
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4 Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.
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28 The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.
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10 "Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today.
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11 Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child did minister to Yahweh before Eli the priest.
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1 It happened, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
- 1 Sam 3:8-92 verses65%
8 Yahweh called Samuel again the third time. He arose and went to Eli, and said, "Here I am; for you called me." Eli perceived that Yahweh had called the child.
9 Therefore Eli said to Samuel, "Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he calls you, that you shall say, 'Speak, Yahweh; for your servant hears.'" So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
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3 The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen.
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7 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.
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14 Eli said to her, "How long will you be drunken? Put away your wine from you."
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12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man was an old man in the days of Saul, stricken [in years] among men.
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17 For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
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1 It happened after many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,
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9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of the temple of Yahweh.
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25 They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli.
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32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
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27 A man of God came to Eli, and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Did I reveal myself to the house of your father, when they were in Egypt [in bondage] to Pharaoh's house?
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1 Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn't keep warm.
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10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father.
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3 This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there.
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18 In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
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18 When the child was grown, it happened one day that he went out to his father to the reapers.
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4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to Ramah;