1 Samuel 4:22

She said, “ God’s glory has left Israel, because God’s sacred chest has been captured!” And then she died.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

21She 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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Cross References

1 Samuel 2:34And your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will both die on the same day. And that will prove to you that all that I have said will come true/happen.

Psalms 78:64Many priests were killed by their enemies’ swords, and ◄the people did not allow the priests’ widows/the priests’ widows were not allowed► to mourn.

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 →

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