1 SAMUEL 4:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.”
There also the loss was very great: on the part of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers fell. Also the ark of God was captured; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died—the *shloshim elef ish* (thirty thousand men) represents catastrophic loss. More crucially, the *aron Elohim* (ark of God) is *nilkach* (captured), and Hophni and Phinehas are both *meitu* (died), fulfilling the prophecy of 2:34. The judgment on Eli's house is executed in war.
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