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20 and as she was about to die, the midwives told her,

Midwives: Don’t be afraid. You have a son.

But she did not answer or seem to hear them. 21 She said only that the son should be called Ichabod, meaning, “Where has the glory gone?” For so it must have seemed to her with the loss of the covenant chest of God and the deaths of her husband and father-in-law.

Eli’s Daughter-in-law: 22 The glory has gone from Israel because the Philistines have captured the chest of the True God.

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