1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 Samuel 4:21 Like Eli (see note on v. 17), Phinehas’s wife seems more concerned with the fate of the ark than with the death of her husband. Ichabod means “where is the glory?” She mourns for Israel because it is without the presence of God. She doesn’t know that the Lord is going to demonstrate his glory in the land of Philistia, as will be seen in ch. 1 Samuel 5:1.

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