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1 Samuel 4:19
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Reciprocal: Genesis 3:16 - in sorrow Genesis 35:17 - Fear not 1 Kings 14:1 - the son Psalms 78:64 - widows Jeremiah 26:6 - will I
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Then the Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him."
And Yahweh God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make a matching helper for him.
Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is right for him."
The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him."
And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone: I will make him a help meet for him.
Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
Now the LORD God said, "It is not good (beneficial) for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper [one who balances him—a counterpart who is] suitable and complementary for him."
And the Lord God seide, It is not good that a man be aloone, make we to hym an help lijk to hym silf.
And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper -- as his counterpart.'
The LORD God also said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And his daughter in law, Phinehas's wife, was with child, near to be delivered,.... Was near her time, as it is commonly expressed. Ben Gersom derives the word from a root which signifies to complete and finish k; denoting that her time to bring forth was completed and filled up; though Josephus l says that it was a seven months' birth, so that she came two months before her time; the margin of our Bibles is, "to cry out" m; and so Moses Kimchi, as his brother relates, derives the word from a root which signifies to howl and lament, and so is expressive of a woman's crying out when her pains come upon her:
and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken: which is mentioned first, as being the most distressing to her:
and that her father in law and her husband were dead; her father-in-law Eli is put first, being the high priest of God, and so his death gave her the greatest concern, as the death of an high priest was always matter of grief to the Israelites; and next the death of her husband, who should have succeeded him in the priesthood; for though he was a bad man, yet not so bad as Hophni, as Ben Gersom observes; and therefore the priesthood was continued in his line unto the reign of Solomon; and no notice is taken by her of the death of her brother-in-law:
she bowed herself, and travailed; put herself in a posture for travailing; perceiving she was coming to it, she fell upon her knees, as the word used signifies; and we are told n, that the Ethiopian women, when they bring forth, fall upon their knees, and bear their young, rarely making use of a midwife, and so it seems it was the way of the Hebrew women:
for her pains came upon her; sooner it is very probable than otherwise they would, which is sometimes the case, when frights seize a person in such circumstances: or were "turned upon her" o; they ceased, so that she could not make the necessary evacuations after the birth, which issued in her death; some render it, "her doors were turned" p, or changed; the doors of her womb, as in Job 3:10, though these had been opened for the bringing forth of her child, yet were reversed, changed, and altered, so as to prevent the after birth coming away, which caused her death, as follows.
k ××× "absolvere, consummare, perficere", Buxtorf. l Ut supra, (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 3.) sect. 4. m ××ת "ad ululandum", Montanus; so some in Munster; "ad ejulandum", as some in Vatablus. n Ludolph. Hist. Aethiop. l. 1. c. 14. o × ×פ×× "versae erant", Pagninus, Montanus. p "Quoniam inversi sunt super eam eardines ejus", Munster; so Jarchi; Vid. T. Bab. Becorot, fol. 45. 1.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Samuel 4:19. 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!