1 Samuel 4:15

Webster's Bible (1833)

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 3:1-3
    3 verses
    85%

    1The child Samuel ministered to Yahweh before Eli. The word of Yahweh was precious in those days; there was no frequent vision.

    2It 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),

    3and 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 4:11-14
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    76%

    11The ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

    12There 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.

    13When 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.

    14When Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What means the noise of this tumult? The man hurried, and came and told Eli.

  • 1 Sam 4:16-18
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    74%

    16The man said to Eli, I am he who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army. He said, How went the matter, my son?

    17He who brought the news answered, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.

    18It 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 3:14-16
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    70%

    14Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be expiated with sacrifice nor offering forever.

    15Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of Yahweh. Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.

    16Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. He said, Here am I.

  • 1 Sam 2:22-23
    2 verses
    70%

    22Now 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.

    23He said to them, Why do you such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.

  • Gen 27:1-2
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    1It 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."

    2He said, "See now, I am old. I don't know the day of my death.

  • Gen 48:10
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    10Now 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.

  • 2 Sam 19:35
    67%

    35I 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?

  • 1 Chr 15:9
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    9of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brothers eighty;

  • 1 Kgs 14:4
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    4Jeroboam'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.

  • Deut 34:7
    66%

    7Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

  • 2 Chr 24:15
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    15But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died; one hundred thirty years old was he when he died.

  • 1 Sam 12:2
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    2Now, 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.

  • 1 Sam 2:33
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    33The 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.

  • Job 32:4
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    4Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.

  • Gen 35:28
    66%

    28The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.

  • Josh 14:10
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    10Now, 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: and now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.

  • 1 Sam 2:11
    65%

    11Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child did minister to Yahweh before Eli the priest.

  • 1 Sam 8:1
    65%

    1It happened, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

  • 1 Sam 3:8-9
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    65%

    8Yahweh called Samuel again the third time. He arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. Eli perceived that Yahweh had called the child.

    9Therefore Eli said to Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call you, that you shall say, Speak, Yahweh; for your servant hears. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

  • Isa 32:3
    65%

    3The eyes of those who see shall not be dim, and the ears of those who hear shall listen.

  • Luke 1:7
    65%

    7But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

  • 1 Sam 1:14
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    14Eli said to her, How long will you be drunken? put away your wine from you.

  • 1 Sam 17:12
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    12Now 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.

  • Lam 5:17
    65%

    17For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;

  • Josh 23:1
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    1It happened after many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from all their enemies round about, and Joshua was old and well stricken in years;

  • 1 Sam 1:9
    65%

    9So 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 door-post of the temple of Yahweh.

  • 1 Sam 1:25
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    25They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli.

  • 2 Sam 19:32
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    32Now 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.

  • 1 Sam 2:27
    64%

    27There came a man of God 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?

  • 1 Kgs 1:1
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    1Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he got no heat.

  • Job 15:10
    64%

    10With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than your father.

  • 1 Sam 1:3
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    3This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of Hosts in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there.

  • Isa 29:18
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    18In that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

  • 2 Kgs 4:18
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    18When the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.

  • 1 Sam 8:4
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    4Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to Ramah;