63. The fire consumed their young men. As fire
slew Nadab and Abihu literally, so the fire of divine wrath fell on the sons of
Eli, who defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. And their maidens were not given to marriage. The bride lacked her bridegroom; the sword had left unmarried
those who otherwise would have been congratulated. Therefore Israel’s state was
not replenished; the nation had failed in its solemn task of instructing the
young in the fear of Jehovah, and it was a fitting judgment that the very
production of a posterity should be endangered.
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