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Verse 1 Samuel 4:20. _BUT SHE ANSWERED NOT_] She paid no attention to
what the women had said concerning her having borne a son; that
information she _regarded not_....
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5. THE JUDGMENT OF ELI AND HIS SONS--ICHABOD
CHAPTER 4
_ 1. The fulfilled prediction: The death of Eli's sons (1 Samuel 4:1)_
2. The death of Eli (1 Samuel 4:12)
3. Ichabod (1 Samuel 4:19)...
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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: formula used by
Deuteronomic editor of Jg. (Judges 10:2 f;...
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ABOUT. at....
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_Fear not_ Cp. Genesis 35:16-19. But the attempt to comfort her was
vain. The loss of the Ark so absorbed her mind, that even a mother's
greatest joy (John 16:21) could not rouse her....
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Death of Eli's Daughter in Law
19. _his daughter in law_ Her death is recorded (_a_) as being a
further fulfilment of the doom of Eli's house: (_b_) for the sake of
her pathetic dying words about the...
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_Sadness in Israel._ 1 Samuel 4:19-22
19 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, and that her f...
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_AND ABOUT THE TIME OF HER DEATH THE WOMEN THAT STOOD BY HER SAID UNTO
HER, FEAR NOT; FOR THOU HAST BORN A SON. BUT SHE ANSWERED NOT, NEITHER
DID SHE REGARD IT._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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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 it this chapter seems to begin with
inexplicable abrupt...
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ISRAEL’S FIRST KING
1 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 4
THE *PHILISTINES STEAL THE *ARK OF GOD
V1 When Samuel spoke, all the *Israelites listened to him.
Now the *Israelites went out to fight aga...
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וּ כְ עֵ֣ת מוּתָ֗הּ וַ
תְּדַבֵּ֨רְנָה֙ הַ
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CHAPTER VI.
_ THE ARK OF GOD TAKEN BY THE PHILISTINES_.
1 Samuel 4:1.
WE are liable to form an erroneous impression of the connection of
Samuel with the transactions of this chapter, in consequence...
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THE GLORY DEPARTED FROM ISRAEL
1 Samuel 4:12
Notwithstanding their high hopes, disaster again overtook the hosts of
Israel. No symbols of God will help us, until we have put away our
idols and laid...
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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 the two sons of Eli. On hearing the news Eli himse...
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CHAPTER IV....
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(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, and that her father in law and her husband were dea...
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The first Book of Samuel (or of Kings as with some) brings before us
that great change for which the Book of Ruth was a preparation, and in
order to which the Spirit of God closed it with the generati...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6.
In chapter 4 the enemies of God and of His people display their
strength; the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel. God,
in overrul...
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AND ABOUT THE TIME OF HER DEATH,.... Which quickly came on after she
was brought to bed:
THE WOMEN THAT STOOD BY HER; who were called to her labour, and
assisted at it:
SAID UNTO HER, FEAR NOT, FOR...
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And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto
her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered not, neither
did she regard [it].
Ver. 20. _Neither did she regard it._...
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_Fear not_ Indeed, the sorrows of her travail would have been
_forgotten, for joy that a child was born into the world._ But what is
that joy to one that feels herself dying? None but spiritual joy wi...
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1 The Israelites are ouercome by the Philistines at Aben-Ezer.
3 They fetch the Arke, vnto the terrour of the Philistines.
10 They are smitten againe, the Arke taken, Hophni and Phinehas are
slaine....
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And about the time of her death, for her strength was not able to bear
the blow, THE WOMEN THAT STOOD BY HER SAID UNTO HER, FEAR NOT; FOR
THOU HAST BORN A SON, the message being intended to comfort an...
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Death of Eli and of his Daughter-In-Law...
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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 that called them to battle with the Philistines. It...
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NEITHER DID SHE REGARD IT:
_ Heb._ set not her heart...
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19-22 The wife of Phinehas seems to have been a person of piety. Her
dying regret was for the loss of the ark, and the departure of the
glory from Israel. What is any earthly joy to her that feels he...
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Being overwhelmed with sorrow, and so uncapable of comfort....
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THE TRAGIC AFTERMATH OF THE NEWS FROM THE BATTLEFIELD (1 SAMUEL 4:18).
The shattering news from the battlefield caused the blind old man to
fall backwards and break his neck, while his daughter-in-law...
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1 SAMUEL 1-4
_(with Judges 21:16)_
I. With all his virtues and natural advantages Eli had one great
fault. He was a good man of the easy type; the kind of man who makes
an admirable servant, who does...
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CONTENTS: Ark taken by Philistines.
CHARACTERS: God, Eli, Hophni, Phinehas, his wife, Ichabod.
CONCLUSION: One may go forth with a Bible under the arm and a shout
upon the lips and yet not have God...
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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 his last moments, were not fit persons to enquire of G...
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_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 length was reaped. “They have sown the wind, and they...
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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 message must come
answers precisely to the intense expectati...
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EXPOSITION
1 SAMUEL 4:1
AND THE WORD OF SAMUEL... ALL ISRAEL. This clause is rightly connected
with the foregoing verse of the previous chapter in the Syriac and
Vulgate. Attached to the fourth chapt...
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Now in chapter four we find the Philistines had come against the
Israelites and they met them in battle and defeated them. Four
thousand of the men of Israel were slain. So the Philistines were
gettin...
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Genesis 35:17; Genesis 35:18; John 16:21; Psalms 77:2...
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THE ARK TAKEN BY THE PHILISTINES
1 Samuel 4:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We would like to suggest something of the history of the Ark of the
Covenant.
1. THE ARK WAS SYMBOLICAL OF CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD. TH...
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Fear not — Indeed the sorrows of her travail would have been
forgotten, for joy that a child was born into the world. But what is
that joy to one that feels herself dying? None but spiritual joy will...