SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:15
Era ya Elí de edad de noventa y ocho años, y sus ojos se habían oscurecido, de modo que no podía ver.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 15. Now Eli was ninety eight years old , etc.] Which is very properly observed, he being now come to the end of his days, and which also accounts for his blindness after mentioned: and his eyes were dim, that he could not see ; could not see the messenger, and read in his countenance, and perceive by his clothes rent, and earth on his head, that he was a bringer of bad tidings; or his eyes each of them “stood” f89 ; were fixed and immovable, as the eyes of blind men be. In ( 1 Samuel 3:2) it is said, “his eyes began to wax dim”; but here that they “were” become dim; and there might be some years between that time and this, for Samuel then was very young, but now more grown up: though Procopius Gazaeus thinks that Eli was then ninety eight years of age, and that the affair there related was just before his death; but it rather appears to be some time before.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 12-18 - The defeat of the army was very grievous to Eli as a judge; the tiding of the death of his two sons, to whom he had been so indulgent, an who, as he had reason to fear, died impenitent, touched him as father; yet there was a greater concern on his spirit. And when the messenger concluded his story with, "The ark of God is taken," he is struck to the heart, and died immediately. A man may die miserably, ye not die eternally; may come to an untimely end, yet the end be peace.
Original Hebrew
ועלי 5941 בן 1121 תשׁעים 8673 ושׁמנה 8083 שׁנה 8141 ועיניו 5869 קמה 6965 ולא 3808 יכול 3201 לראות׃ 7200
