Psalms 78:64
Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
In Context
63The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not praised in [nuptial] song;
65Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth aloud by reason of wine;
Cross References
1 Samuel 4:11And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.
1 Samuel 4:19And 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.
1 Samuel 4:22And she said, The glory is departed from Israel, for the ark of God is taken.
Job 27:15Those that remain of him shall be buried by death, and his widows shall not weep.
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 →