1 Samuel 4:21

New Living Translation

She named the child Ichabod (which means “Where is the glory?”), for she said, “Israel’s glory is gone.” She named him this because the Ark of God had been captured and because her father-in-law and husband were dead.

Cross References

Psalm 106:20

They traded their glorious God for a statue of a grass-eating bull.

Psalm 26:8

I love your sanctuary, Lord, the place where your glorious presence dwells.

Psalm 78:61

He allowed the Ark of his might to be captured; he surrendered his glory into enemy hands.

Psalm 78:64

Their priests were slaughtered, and their widows could not mourn their deaths.

Jeremiah 2:11

Has any nation ever traded its gods for new ones, even though they are not gods at all? Yet my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols!

Lamentations 2:1

The Lord in his anger has cast a dark shadow over beautiful Jerusalem. The fairest of Israel’s cities lies in the dust, thrown down from the heights of heaven. In his day of great anger, the Lord has shown no mercy even to his Temple.

Hosea 9:12

Even if you do have children who grow up, I will take them from you. It will be a terrible day when I turn away and leave you alone.

1 Samuel 14:3

Among Saul’s men was Ahijah the priest, who was wearing the ephod, the priestly vest. Ahijah was the son of Ichabod’s brother Ahitub, son of Phinehas, son of Eli, the priest of the Lord who had served at Shiloh. No one realized that Jonathan had left the Israelite camp.

1 Samuel 2:34

And to prove that what I have said will come true, I will cause your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, to die on the same day!

1 Samuel 3:12

I am going to carry out all my threats against Eli and his family, from beginning to end.

1 Samuel 4:11

The Ark of God was captured, and Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were killed.

1 Samuel 4:22

Then she said, “The glory has departed from Israel, for the Ark of God has been captured.”