Bible verse
“The glory has departed from Israel,” she said, “for the ark of God has been captured.”
1 Samuel 4:22 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Samuel 4.
18 As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.
19 Now Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news of the capture of God’s ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth, for her labor pains overtook her.
20 As she was dying, the women attending to her said, “Do not be afraid, for you have given birth to a son!” But she did not respond or pay any heed.
21 And she named the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God had been captured and her father-in-law and her husband had been killed.
22 “The glory has departed from Israel,” she said, “for the ark of God has been captured.”
KJV
And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.
ASV
And she said, The glory is departed from Israel; for the ark of God is taken.
ERV
And she said, The glory is departed from Israel; for the ark of God is taken.
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