Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep.
Parallel translations
- KJV Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
- BSB His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.
- NKJV Their priests fell by the sword, And their widows made no lamentation.
- NASB His priests fell by the sword, And His widows could not weep.
- NLT Their priests were slaughtered, and their widows could not mourn their deaths.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Job 27:15Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.
- 1 Sam 4:17He who brought the news answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured.”
- Ezek 24:23Your tires shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet: you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.
- 1 Sam 4:11God’s ark was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
- 1 Sam 22:18–19The king said to Doeg, “Turn and attack the priests!” Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.
- 1 Sam 2:33–34The man of yours, whom I don’t cut off from my altar, will consume your eyes and grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house will die in the flower of their age.
- 1 Sam 4:19–20His daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to be delivered. When she heard the news that God’s ark was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and gave birth; for her pains came on her.
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