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with their graven images they provoked him to jealousy. God heard and overlooked, and greatly despised Israel. Having enumerated the evils done by them in the land of promise, he next presents the just judgment of God, showing how reasonably wrath came upon them after all the things that had been said. For when they turned aside like a crooked bow, and when they angered him on their hills, and with their graven images they provoked him to jealousy, at that time God did not even look upon them, being such, nor deigned to see them; nor to hear their 23.933 impious voice. Therefore he adds: God heard and overlooked, according to Aquila, and did not postpone; no longer giving them any delay or postponement; but according to Symmachus, And he greatly rejected Israel. And God heard in this way, as was also said of the Sodomites: The voice of Sodom and Gomorrah cries out to me. For the very deeds of impiety of the impious cry out and shout; hearing these, God rejected the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent where he had dwelt among men. For in Shiloh the tent was first set up, where Eli and Samuel served as priests, as the Scripture of the Kingdoms presents. Therefore, he first rejected this tabernacle in Shiloh because of their impieties. Therefore, according to Symmachus it is said: And he cast off the tabernacle of Shiloh, and the tabernacle established among men. And how the ark was delivered to men because of the impieties of the people, and how the enemies seized it, and took it away with them, and how the sons of Israel were routed, and how the sons of Eli fell, being priests, and how their father perished at the news of his children, the first of Kingdoms presents. Therefore it is said here: And he rejected the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent where he had dwelt among men. And he delivered their strength into captivity. And instead of, their strength, Aquila interpreted it as their might. What could you say their might and strength and beauty, delivered into captivity and into the hands of the oppressor, was other than the ark, to which the present text alludes, saying: And he delivered their strength into captivity, and their beauty into the enemy's hand? But these things he delivered into the enemy's hand, but the people he crushed with the sword. Therefore it has been said according to Symmachus: And he gave his people over to the sword, and he overlooked his inheritance; and indeed when God overlooked them, the things that followed happened. And what were these? Fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not lamented. And according to Aquila, They were not remembered; and according to Symmachus, They were not praised. For no longer were they given over to men with hymns and praises, as was customary for those being married, according to the interpretation of the others, because of the disaster that befell them then. But according to the version of the Seventy, having been led away captive, when they died they had no one to mourn them, because their relatives were not present with them; but also their priests fell by the sword (and these were the sons of Eli), and their widows will not be wept for. And it is possible to find in the first of Kingdoms, how, when the sons of Eli fell in the war, their wives, left widows, endured a terrible death. Therefore it is said according to Symmachus, And their widowed women did not weep; for they did not even survive to weep; but they also perished along with those being born, according to the telling of the story: 23.936 And it came to pass in those days, and the foreigners gathered for war against Israel; then, as the people went forth to the war, It says, a man of Israel stumbles; and there was a very great plague; and thirty thousand companies of Israel fell; and the ark of God was taken, and both the sons of Eli died, Hophni and Phinehas. And a man of Benjamin ran from the battle line, and came

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γλυπτοῖς αὐτῶν παρεζήλωσαν αὐτόν. Ἤκουσεν ὁ Θεὸς καὶ ὑπερίδε, καὶ ἐξουδένωσε σφόδρα τὸν Ἰσραήλ. Καταλέξας καὶ τὰ ἐν τῇ γῇ τῆς ἐπαγγελίας πεπραγμένα αὐτοῖς κακὰ, παρίστησιν ἑξῆς τὴν δικαιοκρισίαν τοῦ Θεοῦ, δεικνὺς, ὡς εὐλόγως μετὰ πάντα τὰ προλελεγμένα μετῆλθεν αὐτοὺς ἡ ὀργή. Ὅτε γὰρ ἐστράφησαν εἰς τόξον στρεβλὸν, καὶ ὅτε παρώργισαν αὐτὸν ἐν τοῖς βουνοῖς αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐν τοῖς γλυπτοῖς αὐτῶν παρεζήλωσαν αὐτὸν, τὸ τηνικαῦτα οὐδὲ ἐμβλέπειν αὐτοὺς ὁ Θεὸς τοιούτους ὄντας, ἀλλ' οὐδὲ ὁρᾷν ἠξίου· ἀλλ' οὐδὲ ἀκούειν αὐτῶν 23.933 τῆς ἀσεβοῦς φωνῆς. ∆ιὸ ἐπιλέγει· Ἤκουσεν ὁ Θεὸς καὶ ὑπερίδε, κατὰ τὸν Ἀκύλαν, καὶ ἀνυπερθέτησε· μηκέτι ἀναβολὴν μηδὲ ὑπέρθεσιν αὐτοῖς ἐνδούς· κατὰ δὲ τὸν Σύμμαχον, Καὶ ἀπεδοκίμασε σφόδρα τὸν Ἰσραήλ. Οὕτως δὲ ἤκουσεν ὁ Θεὸς, ὡς καὶ ἐπὶ Σοδομιτῶν εἴρητο· Φωνὴ Σοδόμων καὶ Γομόῤῥας βοᾷ πρὸς μέ. Τῶν γὰρ ἀσεβῶν αὐτὰ κέκραγε καὶ βοᾷ τὰ τῆς ἀσεβείας πράγματα· ὧν ἀκούσας ὁ Θεὸς ἀπώσατο τὴν σκηνὴν Σηλὼμ, σκήνωμα οὗ κατεσκήνωσεν ἐν ἀνθρώποις. Ἐν γὰρ τῇ Σηλὼμ πρῶτον ἔστη ἡ σκηνὴ, ἔνθα ἱερᾶτο Ἡλεὶ καὶ Σαμουὴλ, ὡς παρίστησιν ἡ Γραφὴ τῶν Βασιλειῶν. Ταύτην οὖν ἀπώσατο πρώτην τὴν ἐν Σηλὼμ σκήνωσιν διὰ τὰς ἀσεβείας αὐτῶν. ∆ιὸ κατὰ τὸν Σύμμαχον εἴρηται· Καὶ ἀπέῤῥιψε τὴν σκήνωσιν τὴν Σηλὼμ, καὶ τὴν σκήνωσιν τὴν ἱδρυθεῖσαν ἐν ἀνθρώποις. Ὅπως δὲ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις παρεδόθη ἡ κιβωτὸς διὰ τὰ ἀσεβήματα τοῦ λαοῦ, καὶ ὡς ἐκράτησαν αὐτῆς οἱ πολέμιοι, ἀπήγαγόν τε παρ' ἑαυτοῖς, καὶ ὡς οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ ἐτροπώθησαν, καὶ ὡς οἱ υἱοὶ Ἡλεὶ πεπτώκασιν, οἱ ἱερεῖς ὄντες, ὅ τε τούτων πατὴρ ὡς ἀπώλετο ἐπὶ τῇ τῶν παίδων ἀγγελίᾳ, ἡ πρώτη παρίστησι τῶν Βασιλειῶν. ∆ιὸ εἴρηται ἐνταῦθα· Καὶ ἀπώσατο τὴν σκηνὴν Σηλῶ, σκήνωμα οὗ κατεσκήνωσεν ἐν ἀνθρώποις. Καὶ παρέδωκεν εἰς αἰχμαλωσίαν τὴν ἰσχὺν αὐτῶν. Ἀντὶ δὲ τοῦ, τὴν ἰσχὺν αὐτῶν, τὸ κράτος αὐτῶν ἡρμήνευσεν ὁ Ἀκύλας. Κράτος δὲ αὐτῶν καὶ ἰσχὺν καὶ καλλονὴν, εἰς αἰχμαλωσίαν καὶ εἰς χεῖρας θλίβοντος παραδοθέντα τίνα ἂν εἴποις ἢ τὴν κιβωτὸν, ἣν ὁ παρὼν αἰνίττεται λόγος φάσκων· Καὶ παρέδωκεν εἰς αἰχμαλωσίαν τὴν ἰσχὺν αὐτῶν, καὶ τὴν καλλονὴν αὐτῶν εἰς χεῖρας ἐχθροῦ; Ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν παρέδωκεν εἰς χεῖρας ἐχθροῦ, τὸν δὲ λαὸν συνέτριψεν ἐν ῥομφαίᾳ. ∆ιὸ λέλεκται κατὰ τὸν Σύμμαχον· Καὶ ἐξέδωκεν εἰς μάχαιραν τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὴν κληρονομίαν αὐτοῦ ὑπερίδεν· καὶ δὴ ὑπεριδόντος αὐτοὺς τοῦ Θεοῦ, τὰ ἑξῆς ἐγίνετο. Τίνα δὲ ταῦτα; Τοὺς νεανίσκους αὐτῶν κατέφαγε πῦρ, καὶ αἱ παρθένοι αὐτῶν οὐκ ἐπενθήθησαν. Κατὰ δὲ τὸν Ἀκύλαν, Οὐχ ὑπεμνήσθησαν· κατὰ δὲ τὸν Σύμμαχον, Οὐκ ἐπῃνέθησαν. Οὐκέτι γὰρ μετὰ ὕμνων καὶ ἐπαίνων συνήθως ταῖς γαμουμέναις παρεδίδοντο ἀνδράσι, κατὰ τὴν τῶν λοιπῶν ἑρμηνείαν, διὰ τὴν καταλαβοῦσαν αὐτοῖς τότε συμφοράν. Κατὰ δὲ τὴν τῶν Ἑβδομήκοντα ἔκδοσιν, αἰχμάλωτοι ἀπαχθεῖσαι, ἐν τῷ θνήσκειν αὐτὰς οὐκ εἶχον τοὺς πενθοῦντας, διὰ τὸ μὴ παρεῖναι αὐτοῖς τοὺς προσήκοντας· ἀλλὰ καὶ οἱ ἱερεῖς αὐτῶν ἐν ῥομφαίᾳ ἔπεσαν (οὗτοι δ' ἦσαν οἱ τοῦ Ἡλεὶ υἱοί), καὶ αἱ χῆραι δὲ αὐτῶν οὐ κλαυσθήσονται. Καὶ ἔστιν εὑρεῖν ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ τῶν Βασιλειῶν, ὅπως, τῶν υἱῶν Ἡλεὶ πεσόντων ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ, αἱ τούτων γυναῖκες, χῆραι καταλειφθεῖσαι, δεινὸν ὑπέμειναν θάνατον. ∆ιὸ λέλεκται κατὰ τὸν Σύμμαχον, Καὶ αἱ χηρευθεῖσαι αὐτῶν οὐκ ἔκλαυσαν· οὐδὲ γὰρ ὑπέστησαν, ὥστε κλαῦσαι· συναπώλοντο δὲ καὶ αὗται τοῖς τικτομένοις κατὰ τὴν φάσκουσαν ἱστορίαν· 23.936 Καὶ ἐγενήθη ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις, καὶ συναθροίζονται ἀλλόφυλοι εἰς πόλεμον ἐπὶ Ἰσραήλ· εἶθ' ἑξῆς προελθόντος τοῦ λαοῦ εἰς τὸν πόλεμον, Πταίει, φησὶν, ἀνὴρ Ἰσραήλ· καὶ ἐγένετο πληγὴ μεγάλη σφόδρα· καὶ ἔπεσαν ἐξ Ἰσραὴλ τριάκοντα χιλιάδες ταγμάτων· καὶ ἡ κιβωτὸς δὲ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐλήφθη, καὶ ἀμφότεροι οἱ υἱοὶ Ἡλεὶ ἀπέθανον, Ὀφνεὶ καὶ Φινεές. Καὶ ἔδραμεν ἀνὴρ Ἰεμιναῖος ἐκ τῆς παρατάξεως, καὶ ἦλθεν