1 Samuel 7:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only. ”

1 Samuel 7:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare the marginal references. Twenty years of Samuel’s life had passed away since the last mention of him 1 Samuel 4:1 . Now he appears in the threefold character of prophet, Judge, and the ack...
1 Samuel 7:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Samuel as Judge. Philistines subdued by Divine intervention; probably an ideal picture, by the Deuteronomic writer, of the happy results of Israel's repentance and Samuel's piety peace, victory, an...
1 Samuel 7:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

children . sons.
1 Samuel 7:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only. Put away Baalim and Ashtaroth - These were not two particular deities, but two genera of idols; the one mascul...
1 Samuel 7:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only. No JFB commentary on these verses.
1 Samuel 7:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Samuel delivers Israel from the Philistines The narrative in this chapter is taken from a different source from the account which precedes.
1 Samuel 7:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth. — The answer of the people showed how well and thoroughly the prophet-statesman had done his Master’s work. Through the land of Israel...
1 Samuel 7:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER VIII. REPENTANCE AND REVIVAL. 1 Samuel 7:1-9 . WITH the men of Bethshemesh the presence of the ark had become the same terror as it had been successively at Ashdod, Gath, and Ekron. In...
1 Samuel 7:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Rashness Punished; Reverence Blessed 1 Samuel 6:13-21 ; 1 Samuel 7:1-4 The new cart, with its precious burden, must have come upon the men of Beth-shemesh like an apparition. The Ark was welco...
1 Samuel 7:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The Ark found its resting place temporarily at Gibeah, in the house of Abinadab. A dark period of twenty years is passed over without detailed record. It would seem that during all that time Israel w...
1 Samuel 7:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(4) Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only. Baalim is plural, meaning several God's. Ashtaroth is singular and feminine, and therefore means but one,...
1 Samuel 7:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth ,.... Both their male and female deities, of which see Judges 2:13 and served the Lord Only ; Dr. Lightfoot i observes, that a spiri...
1 Samuel 7:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only. Ver. 4. Then the children of Israel did put away, &c. ] Their he-gods and their she-gods: so powerful i...
1 Samuel 7:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim , &c. Samuel's reproofs and instructions, and the representations he made of their sin and danger, touched their hearts, and induced them to break...
1 Samuel 7:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Men from Kirjath-jearim respond to the call to bring the ark there. It is not said how it was transported, nor whether it was Levites who attended it. We are not even told whether Abinadab, to whose...
1 Samuel 7:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

3 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the L ORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your...
1 Samuel 7:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
1 Samuel 7:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Chapter 7. Samuel Successfully Begins His Public Ministry And Establishes His Rule Over Israel Under YHWH, Finally Driving The Philistines Back To Their Own Territory And ‘Judging' Israel From Th...
1 Samuel 7:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 7:3 . “If ye do return,” etc. “These words prove that a profession of repentance on the part of Israel had preceded them.… The profession, therefore, mus...
1 Samuel 7:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 7:1 . Sanctified Eleazar, a levite, to keep the ark. Holy persons were consecrated by imposition of hands and by sacrifices, as was Samuel, a levite also. Abinadab seems to have been aged...
1 Samuel 7:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the Lord with all your hearts. Samuel the Judge For more than twenty years the Philistines had held undisputed sway o...
1 Samuel 7:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 1 Samuel 7:1 At Kirjath-jearim the people reverently undertook the charge of the ark, and carried out their arrangements so carefully that no further calamity occurred. On its ar...
1 Samuel 7:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Reformation in Israel
1 Samuel 7:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 11:33 ; Hosea 14:3 ; Hosea 14:8 ; Judges 10:15 ; Judges 10:16 ; Judges 2:11 ; Judges 2:13
1 Samuel 7:4 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Ark with Abinadab 1 Samuel 7:1-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We cover a period of twenty years, in which the Ark was in the care of the House of Abinadab, under the charge of his son, Eleazar. We...

1 Samuel 7:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 Samuel 7:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 7:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 Samuel 7:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Samuel 7:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Samuel 7:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 7:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Samuel 7:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Samuel 7:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Samuel 7:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Samuel 7:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Samuel 7:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Samuel 7:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Samuel 7:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 7:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 7:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Samuel 7:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Samuel 7:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 7:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Samuel 7:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 7:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Samuel 7:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Samuel 7:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Samuel 7:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 7:4 - Wells of Living Water Commentary