John 2:17; Psalms 137:5; Psalms 137:6
The lesson of the ruin brought upon Churches by the covetousness and profligacy of their priests, which is here taught us so forcibly, and which ha...
And she said, (k) The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken. (k) She uttered her great sorrow by repeating her words.
Death of Eli, Birth of Ichabod. 1 Samuel 4:12 . clothes rent, etc.: signs of mourning. 1 Samuel 4:18 . forty; LXX twenty. And he ... years...
And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken. Commentary on the Bible, by Adam Clarke [1831].
And she named the child I-chabod, &c.— Here, as usual, the reason of the name imposed is given: I-chabod signifying literally inglorious, o...
Capture of the Ark by the Philistines. Death of Eli The reason which led to 1 Samuel 4:1 ; being detached from its proper context is that without...
Departed ] lit. 'gone into exile.' The ark had gone into a foreign land.
(21-22) The glory is departed from Israel. — This singular and circumstantial account of the death of the widow of Phinehas, the evil warrior-pries...
CHAPTER VI. THE ARK OF GOD TAKEN BY THE PHILISTINES . 1 Samuel 4:1-22 . WE are liable to form an erroneous impression of the connection of Samu...
the Glory Departed from Israel 1 Samuel 4:12-22 Notwithstanding their high hopes, disaster again overtook the hosts of Israel. No symbols of Go...
The crisis of judgment foretold by Samuel to Eli now arrived. It was a Philistine attack on the people, in which large numbers were slain, among them...
(19) В¶ And his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken,...
REFLECTIONS THOUGH I have incorporated several suitable thoughts as they seemed to arise from the several verses in the Chapter opening before me; y...
And she said ,.... Repeating what she had said before, for the confirmation of it, or as correcting what the women had said; and so may be rendered,...
And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken. Ver. 22. The glory is departed. ] This comes in twice; the other of...
I-chabod Where is the glory? The glory is departed That is, the glorious type and assurance of God's presence, the ark, which is often called God...
Verse 1 shows that Samuel did not conceal the word that God gave to him, but communicated it to all Israel. But it is not said that it was this word...
The Death of Phinehas' Wife. B. C. 1120. ...
This is repeated to show her piety, and that the public and spiritual loss lay heavier upon her spirit than her personal or domestic calamity.
The Tragic Aftermath Of The News From The Battlefield ( 1 Samuel 4:18-22 ). The shattering news from the battlefield caused the blind old man to f...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 4:13 . “Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside.” “This sitting on the side of the way by which the first me...
1 Samuel 1-4 (with Judges 21:16-25 ) I. With all his virtues and natural advantages Eli had one great fault. He was a good man of the easy typ...
1 Samuel 4:22 We do not know her name, nor her years, nor her previous career, this poor brokenhearted woman who died with these words on her lips...
1 Samuel 4:5 . Israel shouted. But why had they not put away their sins? And why had they not enquired of God? Alas, these priests, like Saul in h...
And the Philistines fought and Israel was smitten. The Harvest of Sin This story tells of a harvest that had long been predicted, and that at l...
Ichabod, the glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken. Ichabod zhere was a dark cloud over Israel’s firmament. It was a night...
EXPOSITION 1 Samuel 4:1 And the word of Samuel... all Israel. This clause is rightly connected with the foregoing verse of the previous c...
Death of Eli and of his Daughter-In-Law
And she said, repeating her complaint in a dull repetition, as though unable to grasp the magnitude of the horror which had come upon Israel, The gl...
The Ark Taken by the Philistines 1 Samuel 4:1-22 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We would like to suggest something of the history of the Ark of the Covena...
The ark — This is repeated to shew, her piety, and that the public loss lay heavier upon her spirit, than her personal or domestic calamity.
22 And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.