Psalms 78:64 · KJV
“Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.”
— Psalms 78:64
The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage. {given...: Heb. praised}
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, {and} like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
Psalms 78 — Context
He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
63The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage. {given...: Heb. praised}
64Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
65Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, {and} like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
66And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
Cross References
Job 27:15
Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
1 Samuel 4:17
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.
Ezekiel 24:23
And your tires {shall be} upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
1 Samuel 22:18-19
And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
1 Samuel 4:11
And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain. {were slain: Heb. died}
1 Samuel 2:33-34
And the man of thine, {whom} I shall not cut off from mine altar, {shall be} to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age. {in the flower...: Heb. men}
1 Samuel 4:19-20
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. {be delivered: or, cry out} {came: Heb. were turned}