Announcement of the Doom of Eli's House

11. I will do I am doing. The catastrophe is certain. With God the future is as the present.

at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle This expression is found again in 2 Kings 21:12, and Jeremiah 19:3. In the latter passage there may be a tacit reference to this passage, suggesting a comparison between the destruction of Shiloh and the destruction of Jerusalem, such as is found elsewhere in Jeremiah (1 Samuel 7:12-14; 1 Samuel 26:6).

The appalling catastrophe thus predicted was the impending defeat of Israel by the Philistines, the death of Eli's sons and Eli himself, the capture of the Ark, and the desolation of the national Sanctuary.

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