21And 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.
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LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
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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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