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Strong Concordance 1Sa 3:5 And he ran [07323] unto Eli [05941], and said [0559], Here am I [02009]; for thou calledst [07121] me. And he said [0559], I called [07121] not; lie down [07901] again [07725]. And he went [03212] and lay down [07901].

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ELI A high priest of the Jews, the first in the line of Ithamar, 1Sa 2:27. He was also a judge of Israel forty years, and was eminent for piety and usefulness, but criminally negligent of family discipline. For this the judgments of God fell upon his house, 1Sa 3:11-18. In battle with the Philistines his two sons were slain, and Israel defeated; but it was the capture of the ark of God that broke his heart, 1Sa 4:1-22. The divine threatening was fully performed in the day of Abiathar, which see.
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