1 Samuel 4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

1 Samuel 4

1 and Israel went out to battle against them; they encamped at Ebenezer, and the Philistines encamped at Aphek.

2The Philistines drew up in line against Israel, and when the battle was joined, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men on the field of battle.

3 come into the camp.” They also said, “Woe to us! For nothing like this has happened before.

8Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the power of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with every sort of plague in the wilderness.

9 among the troops; your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”

18 fell over backward from his seat by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

19Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant, about to give birth. When she heard the news that the ark of God was captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed and gave birth, for her labor pains overwhelmed her.

20Gen 35.16–19As she was about to die, the women attending her said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you have borne a son.” But she did not answer or give heed.

21She named the child Ichabod, meaning, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

22v 11; Jer 2.11She said, “The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured.”