1 Samuel 4:16-18 The man sayde vnto Eli: I come and am fled this daye out of the hoost. He sayde: How is it my sonne?

Coverdale⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁶ The man sayde vnto Eli: I come and am fled this daye out of the hoost. He sayde: How is it my sonne? ¹⁷ Then answered the tydinge bringer, & sayde: Israel is fled before the Philistynes, and a greate slaughter hath there bene amonge the people, & thy two sonnes Ophni & Phineas are deed, yee & the Arke of God is take awaye. ¹⁸ Whan he had made mencion of the Arke of God, he fell downe bacwarde from the seate by the gate, and brake his neck, and dyed: for he was olde, & an heuy man. He iudged Israel fortie yeares.