1 Samuel 4:21
She named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because God’s ark was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
22She said, “The glory has departed from Israel; for God’s ark has been taken.”
Cross References
1 Samuel 3:12In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end.
1 Samuel 14:3including Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of the LORD in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. The people didn’t know that Jonathan was gone.
Psalms 78:61and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.
Psalms 106:20Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass.
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 →