Yet I will keep one of your descendants alive, and he will serve me as priest. But he will become blind and lose all hope, and all your other descendants will die a violent death.

When your two sons Hophni and Phinehas both die on the same day, this will show you that everything I have said will come true.

God's Covenant Box was captured, and Eli's sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were both killed.

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!"

So Saul said to Doeg, "You kill them!"---and Doeg killed them all. On that day he killed eighty-five priests who were qualified to carry the ephod.

Saul also had all the other inhabitants of Nob, the city of priests, put to death: men and women, children and babies, cattle, donkeys, and sheep---they were all killed.

Eli's daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant, and it was almost time for her baby to be born. When she heard that God's Covenant Box had been captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she suddenly went into labor and gave birth.

As she was dying, the women helping her said to her, "Be brave! You have a son!" But she paid no attention and did not answer.

Those who survive will die from disease, and even their widows will not mourn their death.

You will not go bareheaded or barefoot or mourn or cry. You will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan to one another.