Eli sat upon a seat. —The text here is a little confused, but the sense is perfectly clear. The best and most accurate rendering would be,…

And when he came
To Shiloh; he either passed by Eli, who being blind could not see him, (1 Samuel 4:15) …

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