Dim - Rather, “set.” The word is quite different from the one rendered that way in 1 Samuel 3:2. The phrase seems to express the…

Ninety and eight years old. —The Septuagint here reads “ninety” years, the Syriac Version “seventy eight.” In the sacred …

Now Eli was ninety eight years old, which is very properly observed, he being now come to the end of his days, and which …

The defeat of the army was very distre ing to Eli as a judge; the news of the death of his two sons, to whom he had been so indulgent, and who, as …