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When the news of this defeat came to Shiloh, with that of the captivity
of the ark, (for a certain young man, a Benjamite, who was in the action,
came as a messenger thither,) the whole city was full of lamentations.
And Eli, the high priest, who sat upon a high throne at one of the gates,
heard their mournful cries, and supposed that some strange thing had befallen
his family. So he sent for the young man; and when he understood what had
happened in the battle, he was not much uneasy as to his sons, or what
was told him withal about the army, as having beforehand known by Divine
revelation that those things would happen, and having himself declared
them beforehand, - for what sad things come unexpectedly they distress
men the most; but as soon as [he heard] the ark was carried captive by
their enemies, he was very much grieved at it, because it fell out quite
differently from what he expected; so he fell down from his throne and
died, having in all lived ninety-eight years, and of them retained the
government forty.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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