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At night Samuel hears a voice calling his name. Assuming it was Eli, Samuel goes to Eli to ask what he wants. Eli, however, sends Samuel back to sleep. After a few times Eli tells Samuel that the voice is God's. God tells him that the wickedness of the sons of Eli had resulted in their destruction. PEOPLE: Samuel - יהוה YHVH - Eli
Hophni (Hebrew: חָפְנִי, Modern: Ḥofnī, Tiberian: Ḥop̄nī) and Phinehas or Phineas (Hebrew: פִּינְחָס, Modern: Pīnḥas, Tiberian: Pīnəḥās) were the two sons of Eli. The first book of Samuel describes them as the officiating priests at the sanctuary of Shiloh at the time of Hannah .
In 1849, Eli's attempt to escape the Comanche camp is thwarted, and, after being punished, he becomes the Comanches' slave. In 1915, Eli and Pete debate over their captive, Cesar, whom they caught fleeing a sabotaged oil rig. Eli tortures Cesar, believed to also be linked to the thefts. Pete later escorts Cesar to a river to release him into ...
Death of Eli, 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld. Some years later, the Philistines attacked Eben-Ezer, eventually capturing the Ark of the Covenant from the Israelites and killing Eli's sons who had accompanied the Ark to battle. The Israelites had brought the Ark with them to battle under the premise that it would bring them victory.
1 Samuel 2 is the second chapter of the Books of Samuel in the Hebrew Bible (or the "First Book of Samuel" in the Christian Bible). [1] It recounts the Song of Hannah, the corruption of the priests descended from Eli, Samuel's ministry to God 'even as a child' [2] and the prophecy of a "man of God" against Eli's household.
Eli and his acolytes revolted and shifted to Shiloh, where he built an alternative Temple and an altar, a perfect replica of the original on Mt. Gerizim. Eli's sons Hophni and Phinehas had intercourse with women and feasted on the meats of the sacrifice, inside the Tabernacle. Thereafter Israel was split into three factions: the original Mt ...
The Israelites, also known as the Hebrews, engaged in a number of armed conflicts among themselves in the Land of Israel.Many of these feature in the Hebrew Bible.These conflicts took place during the nomadic period of the Twelve Tribes of Israel and also after the establishment and collapse of ancient Israel and Judah, which were two independent kingdoms—Israel in the north and Judah in the ...
The river flowing between Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie was called by Le Détroit du Lac Érié by the French, meaning "The Strait of Lake Erie." In 1698, Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac, who had previously commanded Fort de Buade at Michilimackinac, proposed the establishment of a colony at Detroit.