1 Samuel 4:22
She said, “The glory has departed from Israel; for God’s ark has been taken.”
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:34This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die.
Psalms 78:64Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep.
Lamentations 2:1How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth, and hasn’t 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 →