20And 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.
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In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-22)We have here another melancholy story, that carries on the desolations of Eli’s house, and the sorrowful feeling which the tidings of the ark’s captivity excited. It is concerning the wife of Phinehas, one of those ungracious sons of Eli that had brought all this mischief on Israel. It cost her her life, though young, as well as that of her father-in-law, that was old; for many a green head, as we…
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