¹³ When he arrived, there was Eli sitting on his chair beside the road watching,^(A) because he was anxious about the ark of God. When the man entered the city to give a report, the entire city cried out.

¹⁶ The man said to Eli, “I’m the one who came from the battle.^[a] I fled from there today.”

“What happened, my son?”^(A) Eli asked.