John Trapp Complete Commentary
1 Samuel 4:15
Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.
Ver. 15. And his eyes were dim.] Heb., Stood. They were shrunk in his head by the contraction of the sinews.
Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.
Ver. 15. And his eyes were dim.] Heb., Stood. They were shrunk in his head by the contraction of the sinews.
DIM - Rather, “set.” The word is quite different from that so rendered in 1 Samuel 3:2. The phrase seems to express the “fixed” state of the blind eye, which is not affected by the light. Eli’s blindn...
5. THE JUDGMENT OF ELI AND HIS SONS--ICHABOD CHAPTER 4 _ 1. The fulfilled prediction: The death of Eli's sons (1 Samuel 4:1)_ 2. The death of Eli (1 Samuel 4:12) 3. Ichabod (1 Samuel 4:19)...
DEATH OF ELI, BIRTH OF ICHABOD. 1 Samuel 4:12. clothes rent, etc.: signs of mourning. 1 Samuel 4:18. forty; LXX twenty. AND HE... YEARS: formula used by Deuteronomic editor of Jg. (Judges 10:2 f;...
WERE DIM. were set, as in 1 Kings 14:4. COULD NOT SEE. One of the nine cases of blindness. See note on Genesis 19:11....
The Death of Eli...
_his eyes were dim_ WERE SET, a different word from that of ch. 1 Samuel 3:2, found again in this sense only in 1 Kings 14:4. Eli was now totally blind....
_Death of Eli._ 1 Samuel 4:12-18 12 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. 13 And when he came, lo, Eli...
_AND WHEN ELI HEARD THE NOISE OF THE CRYING, HE SAID, WHAT MEANETH THE NOISE OF THIS TUMULT? AND THE MAN CAME IN HASTILY, AND TOLD ELI._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
CAPTURE OF THE ARK BY THE PHILISTINES. DEATH OF ELI The reason which led to 1 Samuel 4:1; being detached from its proper context is that without it this chapter seems to begin with inexplicable abrupt...
NINETY AND EIGHT] This number is interesting as showing how mistakes arise. In the original it was denoted by two letters. The LXX, losing sight of one, reads 90. The Syriac, confusing 9 with 7, read...
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 4 THE *PHILISTINES STEAL THE *ARK OF GOD V1 When Samuel spoke, all the *Israelites listened to him. Now the *Israelites went out to fight aga...
NINETY AND EIGHT YEARS OLD. — The LXX. here reads “ninety” years, the Syriac Version “seventy eight.” In the sacred text, where numbers are concerned we usually find these varieties of translation and...
וְ עֵלִ֕י בֶּן ־תִּשְׁעִ֥ים וּ שְׁמֹנֶ֖ה שָׁנ
CHAPTER VI. _ THE ARK OF GOD TAKEN BY THE PHILISTINES_. 1 Samuel 4:1. WE are liable to form an erroneous impression of the connection of Samuel with the transactions of this chapter, in consequence...
THE GLORY DEPARTED FROM ISRAEL 1 Samuel 4:12 Notwithstanding their high hopes, disaster again overtook the hosts of Israel. No symbols of God will help us, until we have put away our idols and laid...
The crisis of judgment foretold by Samuel to Eli now arrived. It was a Philistine attack on the people, in which large numbers were slain, among them the two sons of Eli. On hearing the news Eli himse...
(12) В¶ 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. (13) And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the ways...
The first Book of Samuel (or of Kings as with some) brings before us that great change for which the Book of Ruth was a preparation, and in order to which the Spirit of God closed it with the generati...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6. In chapter 4 the enemies of God and of His people display their strength; the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel. God, in overrul...
NOW ELI WAS NINETY EIGHT YEARS OLD,.... Which is very properly observed, he being now come to the end of his days, and which also accounts for his blindness after mentioned: AND HIS EYES WERE DIM, TH...
1 The Israelites are ouercome by the Philistines at Aben-Ezer. 3 They fetch the Arke, vnto the terrour of the Philistines. 10 They are smitten againe, the Arke taken, Hophni and Phinehas are slaine....
Now, Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim that he could not see; they were set in the lifeless, motionless appearance found in the extremely old, just before total blindness ensue...
Death of Eli and of his Daughter-In-Law...
Verse 1 shows that Samuel did not conceal the word that God gave to him, but communicated it to all Israel. But it is not said that it was this word that called them to battle with the Philistines. It...
WERE DIM: _ Heb._ stood...
12-18 The defeat of the army was very grievous to Eli as a judge; the tidings of the death of his two sons, to whom he had been so indulgent, and who, as he had reason to fear, died impenitent, touche...
No text from Poole on this verse....
1 Samuel 4:15 Eli H5941 ninety-eight H8673 H8083 years H8141 old H1121 eyes H5869 dim H6965 (H8804) not...
NEWS IS BROUGHT TO SHILOH OF THE CAPTURE OF THE ARK OF YHWH AND THE DEATH OF ELI'S TWO SONS (1 SAMUEL 4:11). The devastating news now comes to Shiloh of the capture of the Ark of YHWH and the deaths o...
1 SAMUEL 1-4 _(with Judges 21:16)_ I. With all his virtues and natural advantages Eli had one great fault. He was a good man of the easy type; the kind of man who makes an admirable servant, who does...
CONTENTS: Ark taken by Philistines. CHARACTERS: God, Eli, Hophni, Phinehas, his wife, Ichabod. CONCLUSION: One may go forth with a Bible under the arm and a shout upon the lips and yet not have God...
1 Samuel 4:5. _Israel shouted._ But why had they not put away their sins? And why had they not enquired of God? Alas, these priests, like Saul in his last moments, were not fit persons to enquire of G...
_And the Philistines fought and Israel was smitten._ THE HARVEST OF SIN This story tells of a harvest that had long been predicted, and that at length was reaped. “They have sown the wind, and they...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 4:13. “ELI SAT UPON A SEAT BY THE WAYSIDE.” “This sitting on the side of the way by which the first message must come answers precisely to the intense expectati...
EXPOSITION 1 SAMUEL 4:1 AND THE WORD OF SAMUEL... ALL ISRAEL. This clause is rightly connected with the foregoing verse of the previous chapter in the Syriac and Vulgate. Attached to the fourth chapt...
Now in chapter four we find the Philistines had come against the Israelites and they met them in battle and defeated them. Four thousand of the men of Israel were slain. So the Philistines were gettin...
1 Samuel 3:2; Genesis 27:1; Psalms 90:10...
THE ARK TAKEN BY THE PHILISTINES 1 Samuel 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We would like to suggest something of the history of the Ark of the Covenant. 1. THE ARK WAS SYMBOLICAL OF CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD. TH...