The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
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Gill's Exposition
Their priests fell by the sword,.... Hophni and Phinehas, the sons of Eli, and other priests; which shows the cruelty of the enemy, not to spare men unarmed, as the priests were; and the justice of…
Barnes' Notes
The fire consumed their young men - Fire here may be regarded as an image of destructive war, as in Num 21:28 : “For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath…
The matter and scope of this paragraph are the same with the former, showing what great mercies God had bestowed upon Israel, how provoking they had been, what judgments he had brought upon them for…
Cambridge Bible
Fire devoured their young men;
And their maidens had no marriage song. (R.V.)
The fire of war (Num 21:28) consumed the young men, so that the maidens remained unmarried.
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