撒母耳记上 4:19

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

非尼哈之妻逝世以利的媳婦，非尼哈的妻子懷了孕，產期近了；她一聽見　神的約櫃被搶去，以及她公公和丈夫都死了的消息，就忽然感到疼痛，曲身生產了。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
以 利 的 儿 妇 、 非 尼 哈 的 妻 怀 孕 将 到 产 期 ， 他 听 见 　 神 的 约 柜 被 掳 去 ， 公 公 和 丈 夫 都 死 了 ， 就 猛 然 疼 痛 ， 曲 身 生 产 ；

Contextual Overview

¹⁹ Eli's daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and was about to give birth. When she heard the news that the Ark of God had been taken and that Eli, her father-in-law, and Phinehas, her husband, were both dead, she began to give birth to her child. The child was born, but the mother had much trouble in giving birth. ²⁰ As she was dying, the women who helped her said, "Don't worry! You've given birth to a son!" But she did not answer or pay attention. ²¹ She named the baby Ichabod, saying, "Israel's glory is gone." She said this because the Ark of God had been taken and her father-in-law and husband were dead. ²² She said, "Israel's glory is gone, because the Ark of God has been taken away."

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Genesis 3:16 - in sorrow Genesis 35:17 - Fear not 1 Kings 14:1 - the son Psalms 78:64 - widows Jeremiah 26:6 - will I

Cross-References

Genesis 2:18
Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is right for him."

Genesis 2:24
So a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one body.

Genesis 4:4
Abel brought the best parts from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord accepted Abel and his gift,

Genesis 4:6
The Lord asked Cain, "Why are you angry? Why do you look so unhappy?

Matthew 19:8
Jesus answered, "Moses allowed you to divorce your wives because you refused to accept God's teaching, but divorce was not allowed in the beginning.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And his daughter in law, Phinehas's wife, was with child, near to be delivered,.... Was near her time, as it is commonly expressed. Ben Gersom derives the word from a root which signifies to complete and finish k; denoting that her time to bring forth was completed and filled up; though Josephus l says that it was a seven months' birth, so that she came two months before her time; the margin of our Bibles is, "to cry out" m; and so Moses Kimchi, as his brother relates, derives the word from a root which signifies to howl and lament, and so is expressive of a woman's crying out when her pains come upon her:

and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken: which is mentioned first, as being the most distressing to her:

and that her father in law and her husband were dead; her father-in-law Eli is put first, being the high priest of God, and so his death gave her the greatest concern, as the death of an high priest was always matter of grief to the Israelites; and next the death of her husband, who should have succeeded him in the priesthood; for though he was a bad man, yet not so bad as Hophni, as Ben Gersom observes; and therefore the priesthood was continued in his line unto the reign of Solomon; and no notice is taken by her of the death of her brother-in-law:

she bowed herself, and travailed; put herself in a posture for travailing; perceiving she was coming to it, she fell upon her knees, as the word used signifies; and we are told n, that the Ethiopian women, when they bring forth, fall upon their knees, and bear their young, rarely making use of a midwife, and so it seems it was the way of the Hebrew women:

for her pains came upon her; sooner it is very probable than otherwise they would, which is sometimes the case, when frights seize a person in such circumstances: or were "turned upon her" o; they ceased, so that she could not make the necessary evacuations after the birth, which issued in her death; some render it, "her doors were turned" p, or changed; the doors of her womb, as in Job 3:10, though these had been opened for the bringing forth of her child, yet were reversed, changed, and altered, so as to prevent the after birth coming away, which caused her death, as follows.

k כלה "absolvere, consummare, perficere", Buxtorf. l Ut supra, (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 3.) sect. 4. m ללת "ad ululandum", Montanus; so some in Munster; "ad ejulandum", as some in Vatablus. n Ludolph. Hist. Aethiop. l. 1. c. 14. o נהפכו "versae erant", Pagninus, Montanus. p "Quoniam inversi sunt super eam eardines ejus", Munster; so Jarchi; Vid. T. Bab. Becorot, fol. 45. 1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 4:19. And his daughter-in-law — This is another very affecting story; the defeat of Israel, the capture of the ark, the death of her father-in-law, and the slaughter of her husband, were more than a woman in her circumstances, near the time of her delivery could bear. She bowed, travailed, was delivered of a son, gave the child a name indicative of the ruined state of Israel, and expired!