1 Samuel 4:11
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New International Version (©2011)
The ark of God was captured, and Eli's two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The Ark of God was captured, and Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were killed.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And the ark of God was captured, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The ark of God was captured, and Eli's two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The Ark of God was captured, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, died.

NET Bible (©2006)
The ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were killed.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The ark of God was captured. Both of Eli's sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

American King James Version
And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

American Standard Version
And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the ark of God was taken: and the two sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were slain.

Darby Bible Translation
And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.

English Revised Version
And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

World English Bible
The ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

Young's Literal Translation
and the ark of God hath been taken, and the two sons of Eli have died, Hophni and Phinehas.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

4:10,11 The taking of the ark was a great judgment upon Israel, and a certain token of God's displeasure. Let none think to shelter themselves from the wrath of God, under the cloak of outward profession.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 11. - Moreover, the ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain, according to the prediction of the man of God. Probably the last resistance was made round the ark, and the sons of Eli at least died "as men" (1 Samuel 2:33). THE OVERTHROW OF ELI'S HOUSE (vers. 12-22).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the ark of God was taken,.... By the Philistines; which was suffered partly as a punishment to the Israelites, for fetching it from the tabernacle without the will of God, and for their vain confidence in it; and partly that the Philistines might have an experiment of the power and might of God, as Procopius Gazaeus observes, by what they would suffer through having it among them; some have thought that this was an emblem of Christ being delivered into the hands of the Gentiles, and of the Gospel being translated from the Jews to them: and the two sons of Eli:

Hophni and Phinehas, were slain; which fulfilled the prophecy of the man of God, that they should both die in one day, 1 Samuel 2:34. It is very probable they stood fast by the ark, and chose rather to die than to give it up freely; having received a charge from their father, that if the ark was taken, not to desire life, nor ever dare to come into his presence more, as Josephus (a) relates.

(a) Antiqu. l. 5. c. 11. sect. 2.

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The Philistines Capture the Ark
…9Be strong and quit yourselves like men, O you Philistines, that you be not servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight. 10And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen. 11And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

1 Samuel 2:31 The time is coming when I will cut short your strength and the strength of your priestly house, so that no one in it will reach old age,
1 Samuel 2:34 "'And what happens to your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will be a sign to you--they will both die on the same day.
1 Samuel 4:21 She named the boy Ichabod, saying, "The Glory has departed from Israel"--because of the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.
Psalm 78:56 But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes.
Psalm 78:60 He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent he had set up among humans.
Jeremiah 7:12 "'Go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for my Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.