1 Samuel 7:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the LORD. ”

1 Samuel 7:5 - 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 7:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to (c) Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the LORD. (c) For Shiloh was now desolate, because the Philistines had taken the ark from it.
1 Samuel 7:5 - 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 7:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the LORD. Gather all Israel to Mizpeh - This appears to have been an armed assembly, though probably collected principally f...
1 Samuel 7:5 - 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 7:5 - 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 7:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Mizpeh. — Or, as it should be spelt, Mizpah, a common name for lofty situations. It signifies a “watch-tower,” a place where an outlook could be kept against an advancing enemy. Now the assembly...
1 Samuel 7:5 - 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 7:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Leading the Nation in God's Ways 1 Samuel 7:5-17 We are here taught the successive steps that must be taken if revival is to be granted to either Church or individual. 1. Unity . All Israel...
1 Samuel 7:5 - 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 7:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(5) And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the LORD. (6) And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on tha...
1 Samuel 7:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Samuel said, gather all Israel to Mizpeh ,.... Not Mizpeh in Gilead, on the other side Jordan, but a city which lay on the borders of Judah and Benjamin, where the tribes met on the account of t...
1 Samuel 7:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the LORD. Ver. 5. Gather all Israel to Mizpeh. ] Heb., In that Mizpeh; famous formerly for the slaughter of those kings o...
1 Samuel 7:5 - 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 7:5 - 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 7:5 - 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 7:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
1 Samuel 7:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Ark Having Been Restored, Israel Defeat the Philistines Through The Prayers of Samuel, YHWH's Representative ( 1 Samuel 7:5-14 ). Analysis. a And Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah,...
1 Samuel 7:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 7:6 . “Drew water, and poured it out before the Lord,” etc. “It is remarkable that two rites are brought together here which belong respectively to the F...
1 Samuel 7:5 - 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 7:5 - 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 7:5 - 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 7:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Reformation in Israel
1 Samuel 7:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 10:17 ; 1 Samuel 12:23 ; 1 Samuel 7:12 ; 1 Samuel 7:16 ; 2 Kings 25:23 ; Joel 2:16 ; Joshua 15:38 ; Judges 20:1 ; Nehemiah 9:1
1 Samuel 7:5 - 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 7:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 Samuel 7:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 Samuel 7:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 7:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Samuel 7:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Samuel 7:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 7:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Samuel 7:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Samuel 7:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Samuel 7:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Samuel 7:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Samuel 7:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Samuel 7:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Samuel 7:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 7:5 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 7:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Samuel 7:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Samuel 7:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 7:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Samuel 7:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 7:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Samuel 7:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Samuel 7:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Samuel 7:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 7:5 - Wells of Living Water Commentary