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1 Samuel 2:22

King James Version (KJV)

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1 Samuel 2:22

Verse 22 of 36

Scripture focus

Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

1 Samuel 2:22 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on 1 Samuel 2:22

Theological / Devotional

Eli was very old. A fragment from the book of 1 Samuel found in the fourth cave at Khirbet Qumran and published in 1954 reads, “Eli was ninety years old.” Albright thinks this to be a transposition from ch. 4:15, where the LXX reads “ninety” for Eli’s age at his death. However, the new fragment does not indicate that he was 90 when he died, but when Samuel had been serving him for some time.

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