¹⁷ Eli said, “What was it that he told you? Do not hide it from me. May God do so to you and more also, if you hide anything from me of all that he told you.”^(A)

¹² They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for his son Jonathan and for the army of the Lord and for the house of Israel, because they had been struck down^[a] by the sword.^(A)

¹⁷ The elders of his house stood beside him urging him to rise from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.