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What does the term “Ichabod” mean in the Bible?
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Posted on 06/29/2015 10:36:41 PM PDT by Faith Presses On

Question: "What does the term 'Ichabod' mean in the Bible?"

Answer: The term Ichabod is found in two places in the Bible,1 Samuel 4:21 and 14:3. Ichabod was the son of Phinehas and the grandson of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh. The sad story of Eli and his two wayward sons, Phinehas and Hophni, is found in 1 Samuel, chapters 2 and 4. Hophni and Phinehas died in battle with the Philistines who captured the Ark of the Covenant and took it away from Israel. Upon hearing this terrible news, Eli fell backward off his chair and broke his neck and died. Phinehas’s pregnant wife went into labor and bore a son.

“And she named the child Ichabod, saying, ‘The glory has departed from Israel!’ because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband. And she said, ‘The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured’” (1 Samuel 4:21–22). The word Ichabod means literally “inglorious” or “there is no glory,” and in her pain and despair, the woman (who is unnamed in Scripture) lamented over the loss of the glory of God from Israel.

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It is a terrible thing to experience the loss of the glory of God. And while Israel’s ruin was temporary “until the fullness of the Gentiles” would be brought into the kingdom of God on earth (Romans 11:25), one wonders how many churches today have lost the glory of the Lord, whether willingly or unknowingly...

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1 posted on 06/29/2015 10:36:41 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
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one wonders how many churches today have lost the glory of the Lord, whether willingly or unknowingly...

I could name one or two, but I might get called a hater. 😀😁😂😇

2 posted on 06/29/2015 11:19:11 PM PDT by Mark17 (Lonely people live in every city, men who face a dark and lonely grave. Lonely voices do I hear)
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Very, very good topic for the soul-searhing review of Bible Christians of themselves and their pastor to tolerate impurity in their own conduct that gives the faux-christian imitators confidence in their religiousness.

It is not yet past time for each of us to take a self-inventory of commitment to our Savior's commandments and keeping them watchfully secure.

"Examine yourselves, whether ye be in The Faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?" (2Cor. 13:5 AV).

A moment taken to check out the occurrences of the words "in The Faith" will be not without profit:

"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Whom resist stedfast in The Faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you" (1Pet. 5:8-10 AV).

Fellow-heirs of The Kingdom, there is suffering yet to come. Be prepared: meek toward the right, rebellious toward the wrong. Satan is now frolicking about with little hindrance but us.

3 posted on 06/30/2015 12:18:40 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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“Ichabod” occurs 1 times in 1 verses in the KJV.

And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary Ichabod
1Sa 4:21

When the tidings of the disastrous defeat of the Israelites in the battle against the Philistines near to Mizpeh were carried to Shiloh, the wife of Phinehas “was near to be delivered. And when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed” (1Sa 4:19-22). In her great distress she regarded not “the women that stood by her,” but named the child that was born “Ichabod” i.e., no glory, saying, “The glory is departed from Israel;” and with that word on her lips she expired.

Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary
Ichabod:
where is the glory? or, no glory

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia Ichabod

ik’-a-bod, i’-ka-bod (i-kha-bhodh, “inglorious”; Codex Vaticanus, ouai barchaboth; Codex Alexandrinus, ouai chaboth, Atimos): Son of Phinehas, Eli’s son, slain at the battle of Aphek when the ark was taken. Ichabod was born after his father’s death. His mother gave him this name on her death-bed to indicate that the “glory (had) departed from Israel” (1Sa 4:19 ). He was thus important as a symbol, though little is recorded of him as an individual. His nephew Ahijah was one of those who tarried with Saul and the six hundred at Gibeah just before Jonathan’s brave attack upon the Philistines (1Sa 14:2 f).

Smith’s Bible Dictionary Ichabod

Ichabod:
(inglorious) the son of Phinehas and grandson of Eli (1 Samuel 4:21). (B.C. about 1100)


4 posted on 06/30/2015 12:52:40 AM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (Eee eee eee Oooh ooh ooh .....{ Curious George } to the man in the yellow hat !)
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I grew up in St. Louis, IckaBud was a fair warning


5 posted on 06/30/2015 1:05:28 AM PDT by bigmak007 (They who can't control their own passions, want to passionately control others.)
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Hope no one from Sleepy Hollow, New York is alarmed.


6 posted on 06/30/2015 2:18:49 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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7 posted on 06/30/2015 2:27:08 AM PDT by Bratch
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