Yikes

Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see. And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son? And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken. And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years. And his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her. And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it. And she named the child I-chabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband. And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.-1 Samuel 4:15-22***When Moses and his older siblings Miriam and Aaron were with their fellow Israelites in the desert wilderness of Sinai, months after Moses and Aaron led the Israelites away from Egyptian slavery, Moses stayed upon Mount Sinai with the Lord God for 40 days and nights. The Lord God gave Moses the commands and showed Moses the likeness for making the ark of the covenant of the Lord and other sacred items. The Lord God told Moses that he would meet with Moses between the two cherubim made onto the mercy seat of the ark, and the Lord God said the ark was to be placed in the Most Holy Place of the tabernacle that the Israelites were to make. The men from the Kohath clan in the tribe of Levi, the birth tribe and clan of Aaron and Moses, were responsible for carrying the ark by using the specially made gold covered poles whenever the Israelites traveled. During the 40-year journey to Canaan, the Promised Land,  Miriam died and was buried in Kadesh in the desert wilderness of Zin. Upon Mount Hor, 123-year-old Aaron died and was buried. When 120-year-old Moses went upon Mount Nebo, the Lord God showed Moses the Promised Land, and Moses died and was divinely buried. Joshua, Moses' successor, was from the tribe of Ephraim, descended from Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai), Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob (Israel) and Rachel, Joseph and Asenath, and Joseph and Asenath's 2nd born son Ephraim, whom Jacob proclaimed to be his own son. Joshua led the Israelites across the divinely parted Jordan River and onto the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham, and Isaac, and to Jacob, and their descendants. Joshua proclaimed the commands of the Lord God to the Israelites, and as soon as the priests carrying the ark put their feet in the Jordan River, the water parted and stood in a heap, allowing everyone to walk across safely. Shortly thereafter, before capturing Jericho, the Lord God told Joshua that all the fighters were to march around Jericho, with 7 priests carrying trumpets, and the ark being carried. After Joshua died and was buried in his tribe's portion of the Promised Land, the Israelites were led by elders, judges or their own minds. Eli was the judge and priest when Samuel was born into the tribe of Levi to Elkanah and Hannah. Eli's sons Hophni and Phinehas were priests. However, Hophni and Phinehas did not love the Lord God or follow the commandments, judgments, statutes, or laws that the Lord God gave to Moses for the Israelites. After Hannah took Samuel to live in Shiloh at the tabernacle complex, the Lord God sent a prophet to speak to Eli regarding the wickedness of Hophni and Phinehas, and warn Eli about the destruction and the upcoming same day deaths of Hophni and Phinehas. Sometime thereafter, the Lord God stood and spoke similar words of warning to Samuel. When questioned, Samuel told Eli everything that the Lord God said. After the Israelites were beaten by the Philistines, the Israelites arranged for the ark of the covenant to be brought to the Israelites on the battlefield. The Israelites roared upon its arrival, causing fear in the Philistines. The Philistines defeated the Israelites again, and captured the ark, and killed Hophni and Phinehas. Over 1,000 years after Samuel anointed Saul, from the tribe of Jacob and Rachel's 2nd and last son Benjamin, and Saul became the 1st king to reign over the Israelites in the Promised Land, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 3:1-4:49, 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-6:27, 18:1-28, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1:1-2:12, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 8:1-40, 9:35-29:30, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

Reference Information:
Ichadbod = kabowd = I-kabowd = iy + kabod= there is no glory, inglorious, where is the glory 

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