Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass.
1 Samuel 4:21 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) She named the child Ikhavod, saying, The glory is departed from Yisra'el; because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass.
LORD, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.
and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary's hand.
Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
How has the Lord covered the daughter of Tziyon with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Yisra'el, And hasn't remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
and Achiyah, the son of Achituv, Ikhavod's brother, the son of Pinechas, the son of `Eli, the Kohen of the LORD in Shiloh, wearing an efod. The people didn't know that Yonatan was gone.
This shall be the sign to you, that shall come on your two sons, on Chofni and Pinechas: in one day they shall die both of them.
In that day I will perform against `Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end.
The ark of God was taken; and the two sons of `Eli, Chofni and Pinechas, were slain.
She said, The glory is departed from Yisra'el; for the ark of God is taken.