²¹ Then she named the child ^(A)Ichabod,^[a] saying, ^(B)“The glory has departed from Israel!” because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband. ²² And she said, “The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured.”

The Philistines and the Ark

5 Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it ^(C)from Ebenezer to Ashdod. ² When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of ^(D)Dagon^[b] and set it by Dagon.

¹⁷ So the messenger answered and said, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people. Also your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead; and the ark of God has been captured.”

³⁰ Then the children of Dan set up for themselves the carved image; and Jonathan the son of Gershom, the son of ^[a]Manasseh, and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan ^(A)until the day of the captivity of the land.

The Cloud and the Glory^(A)

^34 (B)Then the ^(C)cloud covered the tabernacle of meeting, and the ^(D)glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.