Adam Clarke Commentary - 1 Samuel 4:19

Adam Clarke Commentary - 1 Samuel 4:19 - 4:19

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Adam Clarke Commentary - 1 Samuel 4:19 - 4:19

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This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

4:1 - 4:1
4:2 - 4:2
4:3 - 4:3
4:4 - 4:4
4:5 - 4:5
4:7 - 4:7
4:8 - 4:8
4:9 - 4:9
4:11 - 4:11
4:12 - 4:12
4:13 - 4:13
4:17 - 4:17
4:18 - 4:18
4:19 - 4:19
4:20 - 4:20
4:21 - 4:21

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!