Psalms 78:64
Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
In Context
63Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.
65Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
Cross References
1 Samuel 4:11God’s ark was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
1 Samuel 4:19His daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to giving birth. When she heard the news that God’s ark was taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and gave birth; for her pains came on her.
1 Samuel 4:22She said, “The glory has departed from Israel; for God’s ark has been taken.”
Job 27:15Those who remain of him will be buried in death. His widows will 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 →