1 Samuel 4:19 meaning and explanation
Now Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news of the capture of God’s ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth, for her labor pains overtook her.
1 Samuel 4:19, Berean Standard Bible
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This verse comes at the climax of a day of disaster. The unnamed wife of Phinehas, pregnant and near term, receives in one moment the report that Israel has been routed, that the ark of God has been captured by the Philistines, and that her husband and his father Eli are dead.
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