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 ornament of Israel, which they could glory in above all other nations. For the ark of God is taken This is repeated to show her piety, and that the public loss lay heavier upon her spirit than her personal and domestic calamity.
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_...
IS DEPARTED - Properly, “Is gone into captivity.”...
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)...
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;...
I-CHABOD. Where is the glory? BECAUSE OF. Some codices add "the death of". Compare 1 Samuel 4:19....
_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...
The connexion will be made clearer by a literal translation as follows. AND SHE CALLED THE CHILD I-CHABOD, (SAYING, [THE] GLORY IS DEPARTED FROM ISRAEL), WITH REFERENCE TO THE ARK BEING TAKEN, AND WIT...
Death of Eli's Daughter in Law 19. _his daughter in law_ Her death is recorded (_a_) as being a further fulfilment of the doom of Eli's house: (_b_) for the sake of her pathetic dying words about the...
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...
_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...
_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-...
4:21 Ichabod, (a-6) Meaning, 'no glory;' or, 'where is the glory?'...
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...
I-CHABOD] 'no glory.' The glory was that of the presence of God, the visible sign and symbol of which was the ark....
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...
(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...
וַ תִּקְרָ֣א לַ † נַּ֗עַר אִֽי־כָבֹוד֙ לֵ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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....
Death of Eli and of his Daughter-In-Law...
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...
ICHABOD: that is, where is the glory? Or, There is no glory THE GLORY IS DEPARTED: Or, there is no glory...
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...
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...
1 Samuel 4:21 named H7121 (H8799) child H5288 Ichabod H350 saying H559 (H8800) glory H3519 departed H1540 ...
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...
1 SAMUEL 1-4 _(with Judges 21:16)_ I. With all his virtues and natural advantages Eli had one great fault. He was a good man of the easy type; the kind of man who makes an admirable servant, who does...
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...
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...
_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...
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
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...
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...
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...
Hosea 9:12; Jeremiah 2:11; Psalms 106:20; Psalms 26:8; Psalms 78:61;...
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...
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...