1 Samuel 4:21
She named the boy Ichabod, which means ‘no glory’, because she said, “ God’s glory has departed from Israel.” She said that because God’s sacred chest had been captured and because her husband and her father-in-law had died.
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1 Samuel 3:12When that happens, I will punish Eli and his family. I will do to them everything that I said that I would do.
1 Samuel 14:3Ahijah the priest was also there. He was wearing the sacred vest. Ahijah was the son of Ahitub, who was a brother of Ichabod. Ichabod and Ahitub were the sons of Phinehas, who was the son of Eli, who had been Yahweh’s priest at Shiloh. No one knew that Jonathan had left the Israeli camp.
Psalms 78:61He allowed their enemies to capture the sacred chest, which was the symbol of his power and his glory.
Psalms 106:20Instead of worshiping our glorious God, they started to worship a statue of a bull that eats grass!
Lamentations 2:1Yahweh was extremely angry with us; as a result, it was as though [MET] he covered Jerusalem with a dark cloud. Previously it was a beautiful/glorious city, but he has caused it to become a ruins. At the time he punished [MET] Israel, he even abandoned his temple [MET] in Jerusalem.
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 →