1 Samuel 4:21
She named the child Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel"; because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
22She said, "The glory has departed from Israel; for the ark of God is 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 14:3and 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 did not 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 gloryfor an image of a bull that eats grass.
Lamentations 2:1ALEPHHow the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger!He has cast down from heaven to the earth the splendor of Israel,and hasn't remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.BET
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 →