And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
The lesson of the ruin brought upon Churches by the covetousness and profligacy of their priests, which is here taught us so forcibly, and which has been again and again illustrated in Jews and…
We have here another melancholy story, that carries on the desolations of Eli's house, and the sorrowful feeling which the tidings of the ark's captivity excited. It is concerning the wife of…
The connexion will be made clearer by a literal translation as follows. And she called the child I-chabod, (saying, [The] Glory is departed from Israel), with reference to the ark being taken, and…