1 Samuel 4:17 WEB

¹⁵  Now Eli was ninety-eight years old; and his eyes were set, so that he could not see.

¹⁶  The man said to Eli, I am he who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army. He said, How went the matter, my son?

¹⁷  He who brought the news answered, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.

¹⁸  It happened, when he made mention of the ark of God, that [Eli] fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

¹⁹  His daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the news that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and brought forth; for her pains came on her.