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Hirsch and König, in ''The Jewish Encyclopedia'', state that Eli died after the death of [[Samson]].<ref name=Easton/><ref name=Hirsch>Hirsch EG and König E, "[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=183&letter=E Eli]," ''The Jewish Encyclopedia'', n.d. Accessed December 21, 2008.</ref> But the Philistines were not likely to have lost the initiative solely after Samson's revenge, awesome though it was. Only another major military reverse could have ended the Philistine dominion definitively. So the most likely sequence of events involves the Battle of [[Mizpah]] taking place shortly after the fall of the Temple of Dagon, and both events occurring in the last year of the forty-year Philistine dominion.
Hirsch and König, in ''The Jewish Encyclopedia'', state that Eli died after the death of [[Samson]].<ref name=Easton/><ref name=Hirsch>Hirsch EG and König E, "[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=183&letter=E Eli]," ''The Jewish Encyclopedia'', n.d. Accessed December 21, 2008.</ref> But the Philistines were not likely to have lost the initiative solely after Samson's revenge, awesome though it was. Only another major military reverse could have ended the Philistine dominion definitively. So the most likely sequence of events involves the Battle of [[Mizpah]] taking place shortly after the fall of the Temple of Dagon, and both events occurring in the last year of the forty-year Philistine dominion.
The Bible ({{Bible ref|book=1_Samuel|chap=7|verses=2}}) states that the [[ark of the covenant]], once recovered, remained for twenty years at Kiriath Jearim. This period is large enough to span exactly the career of [[Samson]]. Therefore, Samson likely began his career in the year of the recovery of the ark, and so Eli must have died seven months before the recovery.<ref name=Jones3>Jones, ''op. cit.'', p. 84</ref>
The Bible ({{Bible ref|book=1_Samuel|chap=7|verses=2}}) states that the [[Ark of the Covenant]], once recovered, remained for twenty years at Kiriath Jearim. This period is large enough to span exactly the career of [[Samson]]. Therefore, Samson likely began his career in the year of the recovery of the ark, and so Eli must have died seven months before the recovery.<ref name=Jones3>Jones, ''op. cit.'', p. 84</ref>
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