1 Samuel 4:19-22

Contemporary English Version

¹⁹ The wife of Phinehas was about to give birth. And soon after she heard that the sacred chest had been captured and that her husband and his father had died, her baby came. The birth was very hard, ²⁰ and she was dying. But the women taking care of her said, “Don't be afraid—it's a boy!”

She didn't pay any attention to them. ^21-22 Instead she kept thinking about losing her husband and her father-in-law. So she said, “My son will be named Ichabod,^[a] because the glory of Israel left our country when the sacred chest was captured.”