And she said, “The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured.”
We have here another melancholy story, that carries on the desolations of Eli's house, and the sorrowful feeling which the tidings of the ark's captivity excited. It is concerning the wife of Phinehas, one of those ungracious sons of Eli that had brought all this mischief on Israel.
Commenting on 1 Samuel 4:19-22
And she said,.... Repeating what she had said before, for the confirmation of it, or as correcting what the women had said; and so may be rendered: but she said; giving her own and only reason for the name of the child: the glory is departed from Israel, for the ark of God is taken; so when the word, worship, and ordinances of God are...
And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken. (k) She uttered her great sorrow by repeating her words.