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1 Samuel 4:21

I-chabod The name means No-glory, or Where is glory?Cp. Rachel's significant name for Benjamin, Ben-oni= "Son of my sorrow" (Genesis 35:18).

The glory is departed from Israel In Exodus 16:10; Exodus 40:34-35, and many other passages, "the glory of the Lord" denotes the visible manifestation of the Presence and Majesty of Jehovah, known in later times as the Shechinah. The promise in Leviticus 16:2, "I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat," (cp. Exodus 25:22; Numbers 7:89), connects this manifestation specially with the Ark, and though it does not appear that the Cloud rested continually between the Cherubim, yet along with the Ark the Glory which was the pledge of Jehovah's Presence -had departed from Israel." In Romans 9:4 St Paul mentions the gloryas one of the special privileges of his nation.

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See also 1 Samuel 4:21 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Samuel 4:21. _SHE NAMED THE CHILD I-CHABOD_] The versions are various on the original words כבוד _I-chabod_; the _Septuagint_, ουαιβαρχαβωθ _ouaibrachaboth_; the _Syriac_, [Syriac] _yochobor_...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    IS DEPARTED - Properly, “Is gone into captivity.”...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    5. THE JUDGMENT OF ELI AND HIS SONS--ICHABOD CHAPTER 4 _ 1. The fulfilled prediction: The death of Eli's sons (1 Samuel 4:1)_ 2. The death of Eli (1 Samuel 4:12) 3. Ichabod (1 Samuel 4:19)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    DEATH OF ELI, BIRTH OF ICHABOD. 1 Samuel 4:12. clothes rent, etc.: signs of mourning. 1 Samuel 4:18. forty; LXX twenty. AND HE... YEARS: formula used by Deuteronomic editor of Jg. (Judges 10:2 f;...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    I-CHABOD. Where is the glory? BECAUSE OF. Some codices add "the death of". Compare 1 Samuel 4:19....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND SHE NAMED THE CHILD I-CHABOD, &C.— Here, as usual, the reason of the name imposed is given: _I-chabod_ signifying literally _inglorious,_ or _without glory;_ glory being departed; i.e. the ark of...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _Sadness in Israel._ 1 Samuel 4:19-22 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 f...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND SHE NAMED THE CHILD ICHABOD, SAYING, THE GLORY IS DEPARTED FROM ISRAEL: BECAUSE THE ARK OF GOD WAS TAKEN, AND BECAUSE OF HER FATHER IN LAW AND HER HUSBAND._ She named the child I-chabod, х_ 'IY-...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    4:21 Ichabod, (a-6) Meaning, 'no glory;' or, 'where is the glory?'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    CAPTURE OF THE ARK BY THE PHILISTINES. DEATH OF ELI The reason which led to 1 Samuel 4:1; being detached from its proper context is that without it this chapter seems to begin with inexplicable abrupt...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    I-CHABOD] 'no glory.' The glory was that of the presence of God, the visible sign and symbol of which was the ark....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 4 THE *PHILISTINES STEAL THE *ARK OF GOD V1 When Samuel spoke, all the *Israelites listened to him. Now the *Israelites went out to fight aga...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (21-22) THE GLORY IS DEPARTED FROM ISRAEL. — This singular and circumstantial account of the death of the widow of Phinehas, the evil warrior-priest, the son of Eli, which follows directly after the s...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ תִּקְרָ֣א לַ † נַּ֗עַר אִֽי־כָבֹוד֙ לֵ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER VI. _ THE ARK OF GOD TAKEN BY THE PHILISTINES_. 1 Samuel 4:1. WE are liable to form an erroneous impression of the connection of Samuel with the transactions of this chapter, in consequence...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE GLORY DEPARTED FROM ISRAEL 1 Samuel 4:12 Notwithstanding their high hopes, disaster again overtook the hosts of Israel. No symbols of God will help us, until we have put away our idols and laid...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The crisis of judgment foretold by Samuel to Eli now arrived. It was a Philistine attack on the people, in which large numbers were slain, among them the two sons of Eli. On hearing the news Eli himse...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Ichabod. That is, Where is the glory? or, there is no glory. We see how much the Israelites lamented the loss of the ark, which was but the symbol of God's presence amongst them. How much more ought C...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (19) В¶ 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 dea...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The first Book of Samuel (or of Kings as with some) brings before us that great change for which the Book of Ruth was a preparation, and in order to which the Spirit of God closed it with the generati...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE ARK—NO DEFENCE_ ‘The ark of God was taken.’ 1 Samuel 4:21 At this hour the condition of Israel could not have been lower. Their army was defeated, their High Priest and his sons were dead, and...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6. In chapter 4 the enemies of God and of His people display their strength; the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel. God, in overrul...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND SHE NAMED THE CHILD ICHABOD,.... Which some render, "where is the glory?" as in the margin of our Bibles; but it signifies "no glory", as Jarchi and Kimchi interpret it; her husband being dead, sh...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband. Ver. 21. _And she named the child Ichab...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I-chabod_ Where is the glory? _The glory is departed_ That is, the glorious type and assurance of God's presence, the ark, which is often called God's glory, and which was the great safeguard and orn...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The Israelites are ouercome by the Philistines at Aben-Ezer. 3 They fetch the Arke, vnto the terrour of the Philistines. 10 They are smitten againe, the Arke taken, Hophni and Phinehas are slaine....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And she named the child Ichabod (not-glory), SAYING, THE GLORY IS DEPARTED FROM ISRAEL, is carried into captivity, BECAUSE THE ARK OF GOD WAS TAKEN, AND BECAUSE OF HER FATHER-IN-LAW AND HER HUSBAND....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Death of Eli and of his Daughter-In-Law...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    Verse 1 shows that Samuel did not conceal the word that God gave to him, but communicated it to all Israel. But it is not said that it was this word that called them to battle with the Philistines. It...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    ICHABOD: that is, where is the glory? Or, There is no glory THE GLORY IS DEPARTED: Or, there is no glory...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    19-22 The wife of Phinehas seems to have been a person of piety. Her dying regret was for the loss of the ark, and the departure of the glory from Israel. What is any earthly joy to her that feels he...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE GLORY, i.e. the glorious type and assurance of God's presence, the ark, which is oft called God's glory, as PSALMS 26:8, PSALMS 78:61 ISAIAH 64:11, and which was the great safeguard and ornament o...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Samuel 4:21 named H7121 (H8799) child H5288 Ichabod H350 saying H559 (H8800) glory H3519 departed H1540 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE TRAGIC AFTERMATH OF THE NEWS FROM THE BATTLEFIELD (1 SAMUEL 4:18). The shattering news from the battlefield caused the blind old man to fall backwards and break his neck, while his daughter-in-law...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Ark taken by Philistines. CHARACTERS: God, Eli, Hophni, Phinehas, his wife, Ichabod. CONCLUSION: One may go forth with a Bible under the arm and a shout upon the lips and yet not have God...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    1 Samuel 4:5. _Israel shouted._ But why had they not put away their sins? And why had they not enquired of God? Alas, these priests, like Saul in his last moments, were not fit persons to enquire of G...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And the Philistines fought and Israel was smitten._ THE HARVEST OF SIN This story tells of a harvest that had long been predicted, and that at length was reaped. “They have sown the wind, and they...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 4:21 Like Eli (see note on v. 17), Phinehas’s wife seems more concerned with the fate of the ARK than with the death of her husband. ICHABOD means “whe

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 4:13. “ELI SAT UPON A SEAT BY THE WAYSIDE.” “This sitting on the side of the way by which the first message must come answers precisely to the intense expectati...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION 1 SAMUEL 4:1 AND THE WORD OF SAMUEL... ALL ISRAEL. This clause is rightly connected with the foregoing verse of the previous chapter in the Syriac and Vulgate. Attached to the fourth chapt...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter four we find the Philistines had come against the Israelites and they met them in battle and defeated them. Four thousand of the men of Israel were slain. So the Philistines were gettin...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Hosea 9:12; Jeremiah 2:11; Psalms 106:20; Psalms 26:8; Psalms 78:61;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE ARK TAKEN BY THE PHILISTINES 1 Samuel 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We would like to suggest something of the history of the Ark of the Covenant. 1. THE ARK WAS SYMBOLICAL OF CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD. TH...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    I — chabod — Where is the glory? The glory — That is, the glorious type and assurance of God's presence, the ark, which is often called God's glory, and which wast the great safeguard and ornament of...

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