I Samuel 2:31
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Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that no older man will be left in your house.
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You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.
And the king appointed Benaiah son of Jehoiada in Joab’s place over the army, and he appointed Zadok the priest in Abiathar’s place.
Surely the Levites who wandered away from Me when Israel went astray, and who wandered away from Me after their idols, will bear the consequences of their iniquity.
The Philistines arrayed themselves against Israel, and as the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who struck down about four thousand men on the battlefield.
including Ahijah, who was wearing an ephod. He was the son of Ichabod’s brother Ahitub son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of the LORD in Shiloh. But the troops did not know that Jonathan had left.