What meaneth the noise?—The blind old man, we must suppose, was seated on his chair of state, surrounded by priests and Levites, who were …

And when Eli heard the noise of the crying
The shrieks of the men and women, which were very clamorous and terrible.…

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…