1 Samuel 4:22

22 She said, “The Glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured.”

1 Samuel 4:22 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
22 And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.
English Standard Version (ESV)
22 And she said, "The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured."
New Living Translation (NLT)
22 Then she said, “The glory has departed from Israel, for the Ark of God has been captured.”
The Message Bible (MSG)
22 saying, "Glory is exiled from Israel since the Chest of God was taken."
American Standard Version (ASV)
22 And she said, The glory is departed from Israel; for the ark of God is taken.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
22 "Israel's glory is gone because the ark of God has been captured," she said.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
22 "The glory has departed from Israel," she said, "because the ark of God has been captured."
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
22 She said, "The God of glory has left Israel." She said it because the ark of God had been captured.

1 Samuel 4:22 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 4:22

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,

but she said;
giving her own and only reason for the name of the child:

the glory is departed from Israel, for the ark of God is taken;
so when the word, worship, and ordinances of God are removed from a people, the glory is gone from them; the God of glory is no more seen among them, who is so glorious in his nature, perfections, and works; and Christ, the Lord of life and glory, is no more held forth unto them in the glories of his person, offices, and grace; and the glorious Gospel of Christ is no more preached unto them, so full of glorious doctrines and promises; and the glorious ordinances of it no more administered: and, when this is the case, the glory is departed from a people; and which is owing to their formality, lukewarmness, unfruitfulness, negligent attendance on the worship of God, contempt of the word and ordinances, and an unbecoming walk and conversation.

1 Samuel 4:22 In-Context

20 As she was dying, the women attending her said, “Don’t despair; you have given birth to a son.” But she did not respond or pay any attention.
21 She named the boy Ichabod, saying, “The Glory has departed from Israel”—because of the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.
22 She said, “The Glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured.”

Cross References 2

  • 1. S Exodus 24:16; Psalms 78:61
  • 2. Jeremiah 7:12
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