1 Samuel 4:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ She 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And she named the child I-chabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel!–because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ 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.

Common English Bible

²¹ She named the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has left Israel,” referring to the capture of God’s chest and the death of her father-in-law and her husband.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And she called the boy Ichabod, saying, "The glory of Israel has been taken away," because the ark of God was captured, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And she called the child Ichabod, saying: The glory is gone from Israel, because the ark of God was taken, and for her father-in-law, and her husband.

1 Samuel 4:21 Cross References

Psalm 106:20

They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass.

Psalm 26:8

O Lord, I love the house in which you dwell and the place where your glory abides.

Psalm 78:61

and delivered his power to captivity, his glory to the hand of the foe.

Psalm 78:64

Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.

Jeremiah 2:11

Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for something that does not profit.

Lamentations 2:1

How the Lord in his anger has humiliated daughter Zion! He has thrown down from heaven to earth the splendor of Israel; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

Hosea 9:12

Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them until no one is left. Woe to them indeed when I depart from them!

1 Samuel 14:3

along with Ahijah son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, son of Phinehas son of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh, carrying an ephod. Now the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.

1 Samuel 2:34

The fate of your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die on the same day.

1 Samuel 3:12

On that day I will fulfill against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end.

1 Samuel 4:11

The ark of God was captured, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.

1 Samuel 4:22

She said, “The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured.”