1 Samuel 4:21
And she called the child Ichabod, saying: The glory is gone from Israel, because the ark of God was taken, and for her father in law, and her husband:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
22And she said: The glory is departed from Israel, because the ark of God was taken.
Cross References
1 Samuel 3:12In that day I will raise up against Heli all the things I have spoken concerning his house: I will begin, and I will make an end.
1 Samuel 14:3And Achias the son of Achitob brother to Ichabod the son of Phinees, the son of Heli the priest of the Lord in Silo, wore the ephod. And the people knew not whither Jonathan was gone.
Psalms 78:61And he delivered their strength into captivity: and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.
Psalms 106:20And they changed their glory into the likeness of a calf that eateth grass.
Lamentations 2:1Aleph. How hath the Lord covered with obscurity the daughter of Sion in his wrath! how hath he cast down from heaven to the earth the glorious one of Israel, and hath not remembered 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 →