1 Samuel 4:19

New American Bible - revised edition

His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news about the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she crouched down in labor, and gave birth.

Cross References

Genesis 3:16

To the woman he said: I will intensify your toil in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Yet your urge shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.

Genesis 35:17

When her labor was most intense, the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for now you have another son.”

1 Kings 14:1

At that time Abijah, son of Jeroboam, took sick.

Psalm 78:64

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

Jeremiah 26:6

I will treat this house like Shiloh, and make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.

1 Samuel 4:18

At this mention of the ark of God, Eli fell backward from his chair into the gateway; he died of a broken neck since he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel for forty years.

1 Samuel 4:20

She was about to die when the women standing around her said to her, “Do not be afraid, you have given birth to a son.” Yet she neither answered nor paid any attention.