BRAGADAYJAH 139

Monday, December 14, 2015

BRAGADAYJAH 814

BRAGADAYJAH 814

And the man from the army came to Eli at a time when Eli was 98 years of age and his eyes were dim so that he could not see. And Eli asked the man what were the tidings and the man told him, he had fled from the army.  And the man told him that Israel was fled before the Philistines and that there was a great slaughter among the people and Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas were dead and the ark of God taken. And it happened that when Eli heard mention of the ark of God, he fell backwards from the gate on which he was sitting and broke his neck. He was an old man and he had judged Israel forty years. And Eli’s daughter in law, Phinehas’ wife was with child at the time. And when she heard the news, she bowed herself in agony of childbirth and she gave birth to a male child; and she named him Ichabod, for she said the ark of God is taken and the glory of God is departed from Israel and with those words spoken repeatedly, from her lips, she gave up the ghost.

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