Ebenezer
That is, The stone of help.
Shen was a tooth-pointed or sharp-pointed rock (see 1 Samuel 14:4 ), nowhere else mentioned and not identified.
Then Samuel took a stone, and set [it] between Mizpeh and (g) Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us. (g...
Samuel as Judge. Philistines subdued by Divine intervention; probably an ideal picture, by the Deuteronomic writer, of the happy results of Israel'...
DISCOURSE: 289 MEMORIALS OF GOD’S GOODNESS 1 Samuel 7:12 . Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of...
Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us. Called...
Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us. S...
Samuel delivers Israel from the Philistines The narrative in this chapter is taken from a different source from the account which precedes.
Eben-ezer ] see on 1 Samuel 4:1 .
Between Mizpeh and Shen. — The situation of Ha-Shen, “The Tooth,” has not yet been identified. It probably denotes a peak or crag, a prominent rock...
CHAPTER IX. NATIONAL DELIVERANCE--THE PHILISTINES SUBDUED. 1 Samuel 7:10-17 . IT must have been with feelings very different from those of the...
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 eith...
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...
(12) Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us. Thi...
THE STONE OF HELP ‘Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.’ 1 Samuel 7:12 ‘Ebenezer,’ the help-stone. It was the custom of the Jews to commemorate...
And Samuel took a stone, and set it ,.... Not for worship, but as a monument of the victory obtained by the help of God: and this he placed betwee...
Then Samuel took a stone, and set [it] between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us. Ver....
Then Samuel took a stone A rude, unpolished stone, which was not prohibited by that law, Leviticus 26:1 , there being no danger of worshipping suc...
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...
The Israelites Attacked by the Philistines; Samuel's Intercession for Israel. B. C....
A stone; a rude, unpolished stone, which was not prohibited by that law, Leviticus 26:1 , there being no danger of worshipping such a stone, and...
The Ark Having Been Restored, Israel Defeat the Philistines Through The Prayers of Samuel, YHWH's Representative ( 1 Samuel 7:5-14 ). Analysis....
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 7:7 . “When the Philistines heard,” etc. “Apprehending that such a gathering under one so well known as...
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 Samue...
And Samuel took a stone. The everlasting memorial How few of Egypt’s modern inhabitants know who built those works of wonder that still draw cr...
EXPOSITION 1 Samuel 7:1 At Kirjath-jearim the people reverently undertook the charge of the ark, and carried out their arrangements so care...
The Philistines Overthrown
Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, at the place where the two former battles with the Philistines had also been fought, a...
1 Samuel 4:1 ; 1 Samuel 5:1 ; 2 Corinthians 1:10 ; Acts 26:22 ; Exodus 17:15 ; Genesis 22:14 ; Genesis 28:18 ; Genesis 28:19 ; Genesis 31:45...
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 A...
A stone — A rude unpolished stone, which was not prohibited by that law, Leviticus 26:1 , there being no danger of worshipping such a stone, and t...
12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer,c saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.