⁶ then I will make this house like Shiloh^(A) and this city a curse^[a](B) among all the nations of the earth.’”

⁹ I will make them abhorrent^(A) and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword,^(B) a curse^[a](C) and an object of ridicule, wherever I banish^(D) them.

¹⁹ Because your heart was responsive and you humbled^(A) yourself before the Lord when you heard what I have spoken against this place and its people—that they would become a curse^[a](B) and be laid waste^(C)—and because you tore your robes and wept in my presence, I also have heard you, declares the Lord.

¹⁸ Jerusalem^(A) and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruin^(B) and an object of horror and scorn,^(C) a curse^[a](D)—as they are today;^(E)

¹² “‘Go now to the place in Shiloh^(A) where I first made a dwelling^(B) for my Name,^(C) and see what I did^(D) to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel. ¹³ While you were doing all these things, declares the Lord, I spoke^(E) to you again and again,^(F) but you did not listen;^(G) I called^(H) you, but you did not answer.^{(I) 14} Therefore, what I did to Shiloh^(J) I will now do to the house that bears my Name,^(K) the temple^(L) you trust in, the place I gave to you and your ancestors.

¹⁹ His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and near the time of delivery. When she heard the news that the ark of God had been captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she went into labor and gave birth, but was overcome by her labor pains. ²⁰ As she was dying, the women attending her said, “Don’t despair; you have given birth to a son.” But she did not respond or pay any attention.

²¹ She named the boy Ichabod,^[a](A) saying, “The Glory^(B) has departed from Israel”—because of the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband. ²² She said, “The Glory^(C) has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured.”^(D)

¹⁰ So the Philistines fought, and the Israelites were defeated^(A) and every man fled to his tent. The slaughter was very great; Israel lost thirty thousand foot soldiers. ¹¹ The ark of God was captured, and Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.^(B)

Death of Eli

¹² That same day a Benjamite^(C) ran from the battle line and went to Shiloh with his clothes torn and dust^(D) on his head.