mkjv - 1Samuel:4:12-22

mkjv@1Samuel:4:12 @ And a man of Benjamin ran out of the army. And he came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes torn and with earth upon his head.

mkjv@1Samuel:4:13 @ And he came in, and behold, Eli sat on a seat by the wayside watching. For his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city and told [it], all the city cried out.

mkjv@1Samuel:4:14 @ And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What [is] the noise of this tumult? And the man hurried in and told Eli.

mkjv@1Samuel:4:15 @ And Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes were set so that he could not see.

mkjv@1Samuel:4:16 @ And the man said to Eli, I [am] he who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army. And he said, How did the matter go, my son?

mkjv@1Samuel:4:17 @ And the messenger answered and said, Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people also. And also your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.

mkjv@1Samuel:4:18 @ And it happened when he spoke of the ark of God, he fell backward off the seat, by the side of the gate. And his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

mkjv@1Samuel:4:19 @ And his daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, ready to be delivered. And when she heard the report that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her.

mkjv@1Samuel:4:20 @ And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said to her, Do not fear, for you have borne a son. But she did not answer, nor set her heart.

mkjv@1Samuel:4:21 @ And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory has departed from Israel, because the ark of God had been taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

mkjv@1Samuel:4:22 @ And she said, The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God is taken.