High priest at Shiloh · Late judges
Eli in the Bible
Eli mistakes Hannah's silent prayer for drunkenness, then blesses her, and raises the son she gives back to God. He cannot restrain his own sons, and dies falling backwards when he hears the ark has been captured.
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35 occurrences across 31 verses in the King James Version.
- 1 Samuel 4:14
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.
Read in context - 1 Samuel 4:15
Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see. were dim: Heb. stood
Read in context - 1 Samuel 4:16
And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son? is: Heb. is the thing
Read in context - 1 Samuel 14:3
And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD'S priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone. Ahiah: called Ahimelech
Read in context - 1 Kings 2:27
So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the LORD; that he might fulfil the word of the LORD, which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
Read in context - Matthew 27:46
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
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