1 Samuel 4:21

And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel; because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And she named the child I-chabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.

In Context

20And as she was dying, the women that stood by her said, Fear not; for thou hast borne a son. But she did not answer, neither did she take it to heart.

22And she said, The glory is departed from Israel, for the ark of God is taken.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 3:12In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house; I will begin and make an end.

1 Samuel 14:3(And Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, Jehovah's priest in Shiloh, wore the ephod.) And the people did not know that Jonathan was gone.

Psalms 78:61And gave his strength into captivity, and his glory into the hand of the oppressor;

Psalms 106:20And they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

Lamentations 2:1How hath the Lord in his anger covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud! He hath cast down from the heavens unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 4:20-22

The Death of Phinehas' Wife. ( b. c. 1120.) 19 And his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her. 20 And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it. 21 And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The… Read the whole commentary →

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