1 Samuel 4:21

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She named the boy Ichabod, saying, 'The glory has departed from Israel,' because the Ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

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  • Ps 26:8 : 8 Lord, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.
  • Jer 2:11 : 11 Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their glory for worthless idols.
  • Ps 78:61 : 61 He gave His strength into captivity and His beauty into the hand of the adversary.
  • Ps 78:64 : 64 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows could not weep.
  • Ps 106:20 : 20 They exchanged their glory for the image of an ox that eats grass.
  • Hos 9:12 : 12 Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of every one. Woe to them when I turn away from them!
  • 1 Sam 4:11 : 11 The Ark of God was captured, and Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.

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  • 22She said, 'The glory has departed from Israel, because the Ark of God has been captured.'

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    16The man said to Eli, 'I have come from the battle; I fled from the battlefield today.' Eli asked, 'What happened, my son?'

    17The messenger answered, 'Israel has fled before the Philistines, there has been a great slaughter among the people, your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the Ark of God has been captured.'

    18When he mentioned the Ark of God, Eli fell backward off his seat by the gate. His neck was broken, and he died, for he was an old and heavy man. He had judged Israel for forty years.

    19Now Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and near the time of delivery. When she heard the news that the Ark of God had been captured, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she went into labor and gave birth, overwhelmed by her labor pains.

    20As she was dying, the women attending her said, 'Don’t despair, you have given birth to a son.' But she did not answer or pay attention.

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    11The Ark of God was captured, and Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.

    12A man from the tribe of Benjamin ran from the battle line and came to Shiloh that same day, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head.

    13When he arrived, Eli was sitting on his seat by the side of the road, watching, for his heart trembled for the Ark of God. When the man entered the city to report the news, the entire city cried out.

    14Eli heard the sound of the outcry and said, 'What is the meaning of this uproar?' Then the man hurried over to Eli and told him the news.

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    22Hannah did not go. She said to her husband, 'After the boy is weaned, I will take him to appear before the LORD, and he will remain there permanently.'

    23Elkanah her husband said to her, 'Do what seems best to you. Stay here until you have weaned him; only may the LORD establish His word.' So the woman stayed and nursed her son until she weaned him.

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    3When the troops returned to the camp, the elders of Israel said, 'Why has the Lord allowed us to be defeated today by the Philistines? Let us fetch the Ark of the Covenant from Shiloh so it can come among us and deliver us from the power of our enemies.'

    4So the people sent men to Shiloh, and they brought back the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord of Hosts, who is enthroned between the cherubim. Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, accompanied the Ark of the Covenant of God.

    5When the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord arrived at the camp, all Israel shouted with such a great shout that the ground shook.

    6The Philistines heard the sound of the shouting and said, 'What is this loud shouting in the camp of the Hebrews?' They realized that the Ark of the Lord had come into the camp.

  • 20In the course of time, Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, 'Because I asked the LORD for him.'

  • 18Saul said to Ahijah, 'Bring the ark of God here.' (At that time it was with the Israelites.)

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    17Then Eli answered, 'Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant you what you have asked of Him.'

    18She said, 'May your servant find favor in your eyes.' Then she went her way, and she ate, and her face was no longer downcast.

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    19During the night, this woman's son died because she lay on him.

    20So she got up in the middle of the night, took my son from my side while I was asleep, and laid him in her arms. She then placed her dead son in my arms.

    21When I got up in the morning to nurse my son, I discovered he was dead. But when I looked more closely at him in the morning light, I saw that it was not the son I had borne.

  • 20Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, ‘May the LORD give you children by this woman to take the place of the one she prayed for and gave to the LORD.’ Then they would return to their home.

  • 1The Philistines took the Ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

  • 2From the day the Ark came to rest in Kiriath-jearim, a long time passed—twenty years in all. During that time, the entire house of Israel lamented and sought after the LORD.

  • 10In her deep anguish, Hannah prayed to the LORD, weeping bitterly.

  • 26When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.

  • 6Then she conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. And the LORD said to him, "Call her Lo-Ruhamah (Not Pitied), for I will no longer show compassion to the house of Israel, that I should ever forgive them."

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    18The child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the reapers.

    19He said to his father, "My head! My head!" His father told a servant, "Carry him to his mother."

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    25They slaughtered the bull and brought the boy to Eli.

    26She said, 'Pardon me, my lord. As surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD.

    27I prayed for this boy, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of Him.

  • 3Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, brother of Ichabod—son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh—was wearing an ephod. But the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.

  • 16But her husband followed her, weeping as he went, all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, 'Go back home.' So he returned.

  • 5Then both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.

  • 27How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war have perished!

  • 1The ark of the LORD remained in the territory of the Philistines for seven months.

  • 19Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your high places. How the mighty have fallen!

  • 23He went in to his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. He named him Beriah because evil had come upon his family.

  • 3The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was.

  • 10Then they sent the Ark of God to Ekron. But when the Ark reached Ekron, the people of Ekron cried out, saying, “They have brought the Ark of the God of Israel here to kill us and our people!”

  • 14The women said to Naomi, 'Praise the Lord, who has not left you without a kinsman-redeemer today. May his name become famous in Israel!'

  • 27And the Israelites inquired of the LORD (the Ark of the Covenant of God was there in those days),

  • 4They carried the ark of God out of Abinadab’s house, which was on the hill, and Ahio walked in front of the ark.

  • 11Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird—no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.

  • 9The mother of seven has grown weak and faint; she has breathed her last. Her sun has set while it was still day; she has been disgraced and humiliated. And the remnant of them I will deliver to the sword in the presence of their enemies,' declares the LORD.

  • 21I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The LORD has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.