1 Samuel 4:21
And she named the childe Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel, because the Arke of God was taken, and because of her father in lawe and her husband.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
22She sayde againe, The glory is departed from Israel: for the Arke of God is taken.
Cross References
1 Samuel 3:12In that day I will raise vp against Eli all things which I haue spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an ende.
1 Samuel 14:3And Ahiah the sonne of Ahitub, Ichabods brother, the sonne of Phinehas, the sonne of Eli, was the Lordes Priest in Shiloh, and ware an Ephod: and the people knewe not that Ionathan was gone.
Psalms 78:61And deliuered his power into captiuitie, and his beautie into the enemies hand.
Psalms 106:20Thus they turned their glory into the similitude of a bullocke, that eateth grasse.
Lamentations 2:1How hath the Lord darkened the daughter of Zion in his wrath! and hath cast downe from heauen vnto the earth the beautie of Israel, and remembred not his footestoole in the day of his wrath!
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 →