1 Samuel 4:21
And she called the boy I-chabod [="Where’s the glory?"]! saying, Exiled is the glory from Israel,—In regard to the taking of the ark of God, and to her father-in-law, and to her husband.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
22So she said—Exiled is the glory from Israel,—For the ark of God hath been taken.
Cross References
1 Samuel 3:12In that day, will I confirm against Eli, all that I have spoken against his house,—beginning and finishing.
1 Samuel 14:3and, Ahijah, son of Ahitub, brother of Ichabod, son of Phinehas, son of Eli, was priest of Yahweh in Shiloh, wearing an ephod,—and, the people, knew not that Jonathan had departed.
Psalms 78:61Yea he gave up, into captivity, his strength, And his beauty into the hand of an adversary;
Psalms 106:20Thus changed they my glory, for the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
Lamentations 2:1How could My Lord, in his anger, enshroud in gloom, the daughter of Zion? have cast from the heavens to the earth, the beauty of Israel? and not have 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 →