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Selected Verse: Psalms 78:64 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ps 78:64 |
King James |
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. |
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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
(Compare Sa1 4:17); and there were, doubtless, others.
made no lamentation--either because stupefied by grief, or hindered by the enemy. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Their priests fell by the sword - Compare Sa1 4:11. It was considered a special calamity that the ministers of religion were cut down in war.
And their widows made no lamentation - That is, the public troubles were so great, the danger was still so imminent, the calamities thickened so fast, that there was no opportunity for public mourning by formal processions of women, and loud lamentations, such as were usual on these occasions. See the notes at Job 27:15. The meaning is not that there was a want of affection or attachment on the part of the friends of the slain, or that there was no real grief, but that there was no opportunity for displaying it in the customary manner. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Priests - Hophni and Phinehas. No lamentation - No funeral solemnities; either because they were prevented by their own death, as the wife of Phinehas was, or disturbed by the invasion of the enemy. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Their priests fell by the sword - Hophni and Phinehas, who were slain in that unfortunate battle against the Philistines in which the ark of the Lord was taken, Sa1 4:11.
A Chaldee Targum on this passage says, "In the time in which the ark of the Lord was taken by the Philistines, Hophni and Phinehas, the two priests, fell by the sword at Shiloh; and when the news was brought, their wives made no lamentation, for they both died the same day." |
17 And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.