1 Samuel 4:15

Good News Translation

(Eli was now ninety-eight years old and almost completely blind.)

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
At that time Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes didn’t move because he couldn’t see.

Hebrew Names Version
Now `Eli was ninety-eight years old; and his eyes were set, so that he could not see.

King James Version
Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.

Lexham English Bible
Now Eli was ninety-eight years old and his eyes stayed fixed ahead and he was not able to see.

English Standard Version
Now Eli was ninety-eight years old and his eyes were set so that he could not see.

New Century Version
Eli was now ninety-eight years old, and he was blind.

New English Translation
Now Eli was ninety-eight years old and his eyes looked straight ahead; he was unable to see.

Amplified Bible
Now Eli was ninety-eight years old; his eyes were dim so that he could not see.

New American Standard Bible
Now Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes were fixed and he could not see.

Geneva Bible (1587)
(Nowe Eli was fourescore and eighteene yeere olde, and his eyes were dimme that hee could not see)

Legacy Standard Bible
Now Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes had set so that he could not see.

Complete Jewish Bible
‘Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his gaze was fixed, because he was blind.

Darby Translation
Now Eli was ninety-eight years old; and his eyes were set, that he could not see.

George Lamsa Translation
Now Eli was seventy-eight years old; and his eyes were dim so that he could not see.

Literal Translation
And Eli was ninety eight years old, and his eyes were set, and he was not able to see.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
(As for Eli, he was fourescore and eightene yeare olde, and his eyes were dymme, so that he coulde not se.)

American Standard Version
Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were set, so that he could not see.

Bible in Basic English
Now Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes were fixed so that he was not able to see.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Eli was .xcviii. yeres olde, & his sight failed, him that he could not see.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were set, that he could not see.

King James Version (1611)
Now Eli was ninetie and eight yeeres old, and his eyes were dimme, that he could not see.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Now Heli was ninety years old, and his eyes were fixed, and he saw not.

English Revised Version
Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were set, that he could not see.

Berean Standard Bible
Now Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his gaze was fixed because he could not see.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Heli was of foure score yeer and eiytene, and hise iyen dasiwiden, and he myyte not se.

Young's Literal Translation
And Eli is a son of ninety and eight years, and his eyes have stood, and he hath not been able to see.

Update Bible Version
Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were set, so that he could not see.

Webster's Bible Translation
Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.

World English Bible
Now Eli was ninety-eight years old; and his eyes were set, so that he could not see.

New King James Version
Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes were so dim that he could not see.

New Living Translation
who was ninety-eight years old and blind.

New Life Bible
Now Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes were weak so that he could not see.

New Revised Standard
Now Eli was ninety-eight years old and his eyes were set, so that he could not see.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, Eli, was ninety-eight years old; and his eyes were fixed, that he could not see.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now Heli was ninety and eight years old, and his eyes were dim, and he could not see.

Revised Standard Version
Now Eli was ninety-eight years old and his eyes were set, so that he could not see.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes were set so that he could not see.

Contextual Overview

¹² A man from the tribe of Benjamin ran all the way from the battlefield to Shiloh and arrived there the same day. To show his grief, he had torn his clothes and put dirt on his head. ¹³ Eli, who was very worried about the Covenant Box, was sitting in his seat beside the road, staring. The man spread the news throughout the town, and everyone cried out in fear. ¹⁴ Eli heard the noise and asked, "What is all this noise about?" The man hurried to Eli to tell him the news. ¹⁵ (Eli was now ninety-eight years old and almost completely blind.) ¹⁶ The man said, "I have escaped from the battle and have run all the way here today." Eli asked him, "What happened, my son?" ¹⁷ The messenger answered, "Israel ran away from the Philistines; it was a terrible defeat for us! Besides that, your sons Hophni and Phinehas were killed, and God's Covenant Box was captured!" ¹⁸ When the man mentioned the Covenant Box, Eli fell backward from his seat beside the gate. He was so old and fat that the fall broke his neck, and he died. He had been a leader in Israel for forty years.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ninety: 1 Samuel 3:2, Psalms 90:10

and his eyes: Genesis 27:1

were dim: Heb. stood

Reciprocal: Genesis 48:10 - the eyes 1 Kings 14:4 - for his eyes Psalms 71:18 - Now Ecclesiastes 12:2 - the sun

Cross-References

Genesis 4:24
If seven lives are taken to pay for killing Cain, Seventy-seven will be taken if anyone kills me."

Leviticus 26:18
"If even after all of this you still do not obey me, I will increase your punishment seven times.

Leviticus 26:21
"If you still continue to resist me and refuse to obey me, I will again increase your punishment seven times.

Leviticus 26:24
then I will turn on you and punish you seven times harder than before.

Leviticus 26:28
then in my anger I will turn on you and again make your punishment seven times worse than before.

1 Kings 16:7
That message from the Lord against Baasha and his family was given by the prophet Jehu because of the sins that Baasha committed against the Lord . He aroused the Lord 's anger not only because of the evil he did, just as King Jeroboam had done before him, but also because he killed all of Jeroboam's family.

Psalms 59:11
Do not kill them, O God, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your strength and defeat them, O Lord, our protector.

Psalms 79:12
Lord, pay the other nations back seven times for all the insults they have hurled at you.

Proverbs 6:31

Ezekiel 9:4
"Go through the whole city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the forehead of everyone who is distressed and troubled because of all the disgusting things being done in the city."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now Eli was ninety eight years old,.... Which is very properly observed, he being now come to the end of his days, and which also accounts for his blindness after mentioned:

and his eyes were dim, that he could not see; could not see the messenger, and read in his countenance, and perceive by his clothes rent, and earth on his head, that he was a bringer of bad tidings; or his eyes each of them "stood" h; were fixed and immovable, as the eyes of blind men be. In 1 Samuel 3:2 it is said, "his eyes began to wax dim"; but here that they "were" become dim; and there might be some years between that time and this, for Samuel then was very young, but now more grown up: though Procopius Gazaeus thinks that Eli was then ninety eight years of age, and that the affair there related was just before his death; but it rather appears to be some time before.

h קמה "stetit", Montanus; "stabant", Tigurine version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Dim - Rather, “set.” The word is quite different from that so rendered in 1 Samuel 3:2. The phrase seems to express the “fixed” state of the blind eye, which is not affected by the light. Eli’s blindness, while it made him alive to sounds, prevented his seeing the ripped garments and dust-besprinkled head of the messenger of bad news.