1 Samuel 4:21

and she calls the youth Ichabod, saying, “Glory has removed from Israel,” because of the taking of the Ark of God, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

Literal Standard Version

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 at the time of her death, the women who are standing by her say, “Do not fear, for you have borne a son,” she has not answered, nor set her heart [to it];

22And she says, “Glory has removed from Israel, for the Ark of God has been taken.”

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Cross References

1 Samuel 3:12In that day I establish to Eli all that I have spoken to his house, beginning and completing;

1 Samuel 14:3and Ahiah, son of Ahitub, brother of Ichabod, son of Phinehas son of Eli priest of YHWH in Shiloh, [was] bearing an ephod; and the people did not know that Jonathan has gone.

Psalms 78:61And He gives His strength to captivity, || And His beauty into the hand of an adversary,

Psalms 106:20And change their glory || Into the form of an ox eating herbs.

Lamentations 2:1[ALEPH-BET] How the Lord clouds in His anger the daughter of Zion, || He has cast from the heavens [to] earth the beauty of Israel, || And has 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 →

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