1 Samuel 4:15 KJV — MannaFest

1 Samuel 4:15

Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.

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ASV

Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were set, so that he could not see.

WEB

Now Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his gaze was fixed because he could not see.

YLT

And Eli is a son of ninety and eight years, and his eyes have stood, and he hath not been able to see.

DBT

Now Eli was ninety-eight years old; and his eyes were set, that he could not see.

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1 Samuel — The transition from judges to monarchy. Samuel rises as prophet-judge; Israel demands a king; Saul rises and is rejected; David is anointed in obscurity and flees across the wilderness. Three lives overlapping — the prophetic-judicial-royal handoff.

Author: Traditionally Samuel (with additions after his death by Nathan and Gad — cf. 1 Chr 29:29)
Date: Events c. 1050–1010 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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1 Samuel 3:2
And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see;
Ecclesiastes 12:2
While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
1 Kings 14:4
And Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
Genesis 27:1
And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.
Psalms 90:10
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

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), but the messenger was loth to tell him first, and therefore passed him by, and told it in the city, with all the aggravating circumstances; and now both the ears of every one that heard it tingled, as was foretold, ch. iii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The calamities announced to Samuel as about to fall upon the family of Eli [1Sa 2:34] were now inflicted in the death of his two sons, and after his death, by that of his daughter-in-law, whose infant son received a name that perpetuated the fallen glory of the church and nation [1Sa 4:19-22]. The public disaster was completed by the capture of the ark.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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1SA 4:15GEN 27:1 GEN 48:10
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1SA 4:15GEN 27:1 1SA 3:2
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
1SA 4:15PSA 90:10 DEU 34:7
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1SA 4:15PSA 90:10 JAS 4:14
1SA 4:15PSA 90:10 PSA 78:39
1SA 4:15PSA 90:10 2SA 19:35
1SA 4:15PSA 90:10 GEN 47:9
1SA 4:151SA 3:2 GEN 27:1
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