Came. Compare Acts 3:24.Hebrews 11:32.
Eben-ezer. Stone of help. So called in anticipation of Samuel's victory twenty years later (1 Samuel 7:12).
Aphek. Fortress. Joshua 15:53.
Related Commentaries of 1 Samuel 4:1
1 Samuel 4:1
1 And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Ebenezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.