1 Samuel 4:10-22 - The Ark Captured
10 And the Philistines fought, and Israel was put to the worse and fled, every man into his tent. And there was a mighty great slaughter, so that there were overthrown of Israel, thirty thousand footmen. 11 And the ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas were dead.
12 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the array and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes rent and earth upon his head. 13 And when the man came in, Eli sat upon a stool by the wayside looking: for his heart feared for the ark of God. And the man came in and told it in the city. And all the city cried.
14 When Eli heard the noise of the crying, he asked what the noise of that rumour meant. And the man hasted and came in and told Eli. 15 Eli was four score and eighteen years old, and his sight failed him that he could not see.
16 And the man said unto Eli, "I am he that came out of the array and fled out of the host this day." And he said, "How is it fortuned, my son?"
17 And the messenger answered and said, "Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there is a great slaughter chanced among the people, and thy two sons Hophni and Phinehas are dead, and thereto the ark of God is taken." 18 And when he made mention of the ark of God, Eli fell from off his stool backward toward the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was old and unwieldy. And he had judged Israel forty years.
19 And his daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child and nigh the birth. And when she heard the tidings of the taking of the ark of God, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her. 20 And about the time of her death, the women that stood about her, said unto her, "Fear not for thou hast borne a son." But she answered not, nor regarded it. 21 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. 22 And therefore she said, "Honour is gone from Israel," because the ark of God was taken.