◄ 1 Samuel 4:15 ►
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Good News Translation
Eli was now ninety-eight years old and almost completely blind.)

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

New American Bible
Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes would not focus. So 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

ninety

1 Samuel 3:2 And it came to pass one day when Heli lay in his place, and his eyes were grown dim, that he could not see:

Psalm 90:10 The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected.

and his eyes (See on

Genesis 27:1 Now Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, and he could not see: and he called Esau, his elder son, and said to him: My son? And he answered: Here I am.

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were dim [heb] stood

Context
The Death of Eli
…14And Heli heard the noise of the cry, and he said: What meaneth the noise of this uproar? But he made haste, and came, and told Heli. 15Now Heli was ninety and eight years old, and his eyes were dim, and he could not see.16And he said to Heli: I am he that came from the battle, and have fled out of the field this day. And he said to him: What is there done, my son?…
Cross References
1 Samuel 3:2
And it came to pass one day when Heli lay in his place, and his eyes were grown dim, that he could not see:

1 Samuel 4:14
And Heli heard the noise of the cry, and he said: What meaneth the noise of this uproar? But he made haste, and came, and told Heli.

1 Kings 14:4
Jeroboam's wife did as he told her: and rising up, went to Silo, and came to the house of Ahias; but he could not see, for his eyes were dim by reason of his age.

1 Samuel 4:14
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