Psalms 78:64
Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
In Context
63Fire devoured their young men, and their virgins had no marriage-song.
65Then LORD awoke as out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts because of wine.
Cross References
1 Samuel 4:11And the ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were killed.
1 Samuel 4:19And his daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered. And when she heard the news that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and brought forth, fo
1 Samuel 4:22And she said, The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God is taken.
Job 27:15Those who remain of him shall be buried in death, and his widows shall make no lamentation.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:41-72
Judgments and Mercies; Wonders Wrought for Israel; Renewed Mercies 40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! 41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. 42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. 43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: 44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. 45 He sent divers sorts of flies among… Read the whole commentary →