1 Samuel 4:19

“And his daughter in law, Phinehas’s wife, was with child, near to be delivered, etc.] Was near her time, as it is commonly expressed. Ben Gersom derives the word from a root which signifies to complete and finish f91 ; denoting that her time to bring forth was completed and filled up; though Josephus f92 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” f93; 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…”

“The judgment which fell upon Eli through this stroke extended still further. His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was with child (near) to be delivered. ללת, contracted from ללדת (from ילד: see Ges. 69, 3, note 1; Ewald, 238, c.). When she heard the tidings of the capture (אל־הלּקח, "with regard to the being taken away") of the ark of God, and the death of her father-in-law and husband, she fell upon her knees and was delivered, for her pains had fallen upon her (lit. had turned against her), and died in consequence. Her death, however, was but a subordinate matter to the historian. He simply refers to it casually in the words, "and about the time of her death," for the purpose of…”