The wife of Phineas named her premature child Ichabod because

Assessment: WAEC SSCE - Christian Religious Studies - 2014 (Objective) Subject: Christian Religious Studies

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The wife of Phineas named her premature child Ichabod because
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The wife of Phineas named her premature child Ichabod because Israel had lost the Ark and her husband. In the book of 1 Samuel, it was recorded that the Ark of the Covenant was captured by the Philistines in a battle with the Israelites, and Phineas, the son of Eli the high priest, was killed in the same battle. When his wife heard the news, she went into labor and gave birth to a son. She named the child Ichabod, which means "the glory has departed," indicating that the glory of the Lord had departed from Israel with the loss of the Ark and her husband.
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