1 Samuel 4:19-22

Easy-to-Read Version

The Glory Is Gone

¹⁹ Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant. It was nearly time for her baby to be born. She heard the news that God’s Holy Box was taken. She also heard that her father-in-law Eli and her husband Phinehas were both dead. As soon as she heard the news, her pain started and she began giving birth to her baby. ²⁰ She was about to die when the women who were helping her said, “Don’t worry, you have given birth to a son.”

But she did not answer or pay attention. ²¹ She named the baby Ichabod,^[a] that is to say, “Israel’s glory has been taken away.”^[b] She did this because God’s Holy Box was taken away and because both her father-in-law and her husband were dead. ²² She said, “Israel’s glory has been taken away” because the Philistines had taken God’s Holy Box.