1 Samuel 4:22
And she saith, 'Honour hath removed from Israel, for the ark of God hath been taken.'
Young's Literal Translation
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 2:34and this [is] to thee the sign that cometh unto thy two sons, unto Hophni and Phinehas — in one day they die both of them;
Psalms 78:64His priests by the sword have fallen, And their widows weep not.
Lamentations 2:1How doth the Lord cloud in His anger the daughter of Zion, He hath cast from heaven [to] earth the beauty of Israel, And hath not 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 →