1 Samuel 4:15

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Eli sudah sembilan puluh delapan tahun umurnya dan matanya sudah bular, sehingga ia tidak dapat melihat lagi.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Eli sudah sembilan puluh delapan tahun umurnya dan matanya sudah bular, sehingga ia tidak dapat melihat lagi.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
(Adapun Eli itu seorang yang sembilan puluh delapan tahun umurnya, dan kedua belah matanyapun kaburlah, tiada nampak lagi).

Contextual Overview

¹² And there ran a man of Beniamin out of the armie, and came to Silo the same day with his clothes rent, and earth vpon his head. ¹³ And when he came, lo, Eli sat vpon a stoole by the way side, wayting: for his heart feared for the arke of God. And when the man came into the citie, and tolde it, all the citie cryed. ¹⁴ And when Eli heard the noyse of the crying, he saide: What meaneth this noyse of the tumult? And the man came in hastyly, and tolde Eli. ¹⁵ Eli was .xcviii. yeres olde, & his sight failed, him that he could not see. ¹⁶ And the man said vnto Eli: I am he that came out of the armie, & fled this day out of the hoast. And he said: What thing is done my sonne? ¹⁷ The messenger aunswered, and said: Israel is fled before the Philistines, & there hath ben a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sonnes Hophni and Phinehes are dead, and the arke of God is taken. ¹⁸ And when he made mention of the arke of God, Eli fell from of his stoole backward by the side of the gate, and his necke brake, and he dyed: For he was an olde man and heauy, and iudged Israel fourtie yeres?

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 Cain shalbe auenged seuen folde, truely Lamech seuentie tymes & seuen tymes.

Leviticus 26:18
And yf ye wyl not yet for all this hearken vnto me, then wyll I punishe you seuen tymes more for your sinnes:

Leviticus 26:21
And if ye walke contrarie vnto me, and wyll not hearken vnto me, I wyll bryng seuen tymes mo plagues vpon you, accordyng to your sinnes.

Leviticus 26:24
Then wyll I also walke contrarie vnto you, and wyl punishe you yet seuen tymes for your sinnes.

Leviticus 26:28
I wyll walke contrary vnto you also in indignation, and wyll chastise you seuen tymes more for your sinnes.

1 Kings 16:7
And by the hande of the prophet Iehu the sonne of Hanani, came the worde of the Lord against Baasa, and against his house, & against all the wickednesse that he did in the sight of the Lorde, in angryng him with the worke of his owne handes, that he should be like the house of Ieroboam, and because he killed him.

Psalms 59:11
Slay them not, lest my people forget it: but in thy stoutnes scatter them like vagaboundes, and put them downe O God our defence.

Psalms 79:12
And rewarde thou our neighbours seuen folde into their bosome: their blasphemie wherewith they haue blasphemed thee O God.

Proverbs 6:31
But if he may be gotten, he restoreth agayne seuen tymes as muche, or els he maketh recompence with all the good of his house.

Ezekiel 9:4
And the Lorde sayde vnto hym, Go through the citie, euen through Hierusalem, & set a marke vpon the foreheades of them that mourne, and are sory for all the abhominations that be done therin.

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.