1 Samuel 4:20

Good News Translation

As she was dying, the women helping her said to her, “Be brave! You have a son!” But she paid no attention and did not answer.

Cross References

Genesis 35:16

Jacob and his family left Bethel, and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, the time came for Rachel to have her baby, and she was having difficult labor.

Psalm 77:2

In times of trouble I pray to the Lord; all night long I lift my hands in prayer, but I cannot find comfort.

John 16:21

When a woman is about to give birth, she is sad because her hour of suffering has come; but when the baby is born, she forgets her suffering, because she is happy that a baby has been born into the world.

1 Samuel 4:19

Eli's daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant, and it was almost time for her baby to be born. When she heard that God's Covenant Box had been captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she suddenly went into labor and gave birth.