Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
And she called the boy I-chabod! saying, Exiled is the glory from Israel, - In regard to the taking of the ark of God, and to her father-in-law, and to her husband.
New American Standard Bible
And she called the boy
King James Version
And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.
Holman Bible
She named the boy Ichabod,
International Standard Version
She had named the boy Ichabod,saying, "Glory has departed from Israel," because the Ark of God had been captured and because her father-in-law and husband were dead.
A Conservative Version
And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory has departed from Israel, because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
American Standard Version
And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel; because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
Amplified
And she named the boy
Bible in Basic English
And she gave the child the name of Ichabod, saying, The glory has gone from Israel: because the ark of God was taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
Darby Translation
And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel; because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
Julia Smith Translation
And she will call the boy, Where the Glory? saying, The glory uncovered from Israel: (for the taking of the ark of God, and for her father-in-law, and her husband.)
King James 2000
And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
Lexham Expanded Bible
She called the boy Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel," referring to the capture of the ark of God and concerning her father-in-law and husband.
Modern King James verseion
And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory has departed from Israel, because the ark of God had been taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And she named the child Ichabod saying, "Honour is departed from Israel" - Because the ark of God was taken, and her father-in-law and her husband were dead.
NET Bible
She named the boy Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel," referring to the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.
New Heart English Bible
She named the child Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel"; because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
Webster
And she named the child I-chabod, saying, The glory hath departed from Israel. (Because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.)
World English Bible
She named the child Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel;" because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
Youngs Literal Translation
and she calleth the youth I-Chabod, saying, 'Honour hath removed from Israel,' because of the taking of the ark of God, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
Themes
Ark » In the tabernacle. Called the ark » Taken to battle
Ark of the covenant » Esteemed the glory of israel
I-chabod » Son of phinehas, and grandson of eli
Interlinear
Qara'
Laqach
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Samuel 4:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eli's Death And Ichabod's Birth
20 And, about the time of her death, the women that stood by her said: Do not fear, for, to a son, hast thou given birth. But she neither answered nor regarded. 21 And she called the boy I-chabod! saying, Exiled is the glory from Israel, - In regard to the taking of the ark of God, and to her father-in-law, and to her husband. 22 So she said - Exiled is the glory from Israel, - For the ark of God hath been taken.
Cross References
Psalm 26:8
O Yahweh, I have loved the asylum of thy house, even the place of the habitation of thy glory!
Jeremiah 2:11
Hath a nation, changed gods, although they were No-gods? Yet my people have changed my glory for that which could not profit!
Psalm 78:61
Yea he gave up, into captivity, his strength, And his beauty into the hand of an adversary;
1 Samuel 4:11
And, the ark of God, was taken, - and, the two sons of Eli, were slain, Hophni and Phinehas.
Psalm 78:64
His priests, by the sword, did fall, And, his widows, were not able to bewail.
Psalm 106:20
Thus changed they my glory, for the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
Hosea 9:12
Yea, though they rear their children, yet will I make them childless, till there be no human being, - for it is, nothing less than woe, to them when I depart from them!