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1 Samuel 22 17-1 Samuel 22 20
Then the king ordered the guards at his side:“ Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because they too have sided with David. They knew he was fleeing, yet they did not tell me.” But the king’s officials were unwilling to raise a hand to strike the priests of the Lord.The king then ordered Doeg,“ You turn and strike down the priests.” So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck them down. That day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.He also put to the sword Nob, the town of the priests, with its men and women, its children and infants, and its cattle, donkeys and sheep.But one son of Ahimelek son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled to join David.
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1 Samuel 4 2
The Philistines deployed their forces to meet Israel, and as the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand of them on the battlefield.
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1 Samuel 4 11-1 Samuel 4 20
The ark of God was captured, and Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.That same day a Benjamite ran from the battle line and went to Shiloh with his clothes torn and dust on his head.When he arrived, there was Eli sitting on his chair by the side of the road, watching, because his heart feared for the ark of God. When the man entered the town and told what had happened, the whole town sent up a cry.Eli heard the outcry and asked,“ What is the meaning of this uproar?” The man hurried over to Eli,who was ninety- eight years old and whose eyes had failed so that he could not see.He told Eli,“ I have just come from the battle line; I fled from it this very day.” Eli asked,“ What happened, my son?”The man who brought the news replied,“ Israel fled before the Philistines, and the army has suffered heavy losses. Also your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward off his chair by the side of the gate. His neck was broken and he died, for he was an old man, and he was heavy. He had led Israel forty years.His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and near the time of delivery. When she heard the news that the ark of God had been captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she went into labor and gave birth, but was overcome by her labor pains.As she was dying, the women attending her said,“ Don’t despair; you have given birth to a son.” But she did not respond or pay any attention.
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1 Samuel 14 3
among whom was Ahijah, who was wearing an ephod. He was a son of Ichabod’s brother Ahitub son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the Lord’s priest in Shiloh. No one was aware that Jonathan had left.
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Ezekiel 30:21-24
“ Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. It has not been bound up to be healed or put in a splint so that it may become strong enough to hold a sword.Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break both his arms, the good arm as well as the broken one, and make the sword fall from his hand.I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the countries.I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before him like a mortally wounded man.
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Psalms 37:17
for the power of the wicked will be broken, but the Lord upholds the righteous.
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1 Kings 2 35
The king put Benaiah son of Jehoiada over the army in Joab’s position and replaced Abiathar with Zadok the priest.
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Job 22:9
And you sent widows away empty-handed and broke the strength of the fatherless.
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Ezekiel 44:10
“‘ The Levites who went far from me when Israel went astray and who wandered from me after their idols must bear the consequences of their sin.
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1 Kings 2 26-1 Kings 2 27
To Abiathar the priest the king said,“ Go back to your fields in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but I will not put you to death now, because you carried the ark of the Sovereign Lord before my father David and shared all my father’s hardships.”So Solomon removed Abiathar from the priesthood of the Lord, fulfilling the word the Lord had spoken at Shiloh about the house of Eli.