1 Samuel 4:13 meaning and explanation
When he arrived, there was Eli, sitting on his chair beside the road and watching, because his heart trembled for the ark of God. When the man entered the city to give a report, the whole city cried out.
1 Samuel 4:13, Berean Standard Bible
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Eli is the elderly high priest and judge of Israel, now ninety eight and blind. He sits by the road at Shiloh, waiting for news from the battle, and his fear is fixed not on his own sons but on the ark of God, which Israel had carried into war as a talisman.
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