1 SAMUEL 4:19 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And his daughter in law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, 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; for her pains came upon her.”
Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and due to give birth. When she heard the news about the capture of the ark of God and the death of her father-in-law and her husband, she bowed and gave birth; for her labor pains overwhelmed her—the *ishah* (woman) in labor hears the news and experiences *tsirim* (labor pains) that bring immediate delivery. The shock of judgment accelerates childbirth, linking her suffering to the national catastrophe.
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