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1 Samuel 7:1 open_in_new
men. Hebrew. 'enosh. App-14. the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
Abinadab. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, add "which is". in the hill. Or, in Gibeah.
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1 Samuel 7:2 open_in_new
time was long. Ark remained with Philistines seven months (1 Samuel 6:1); sent from Ekron to Kirjathjearim in 1040, and remained there twenty years (1 Samuel 7). From the capture (in 1040BC) to its entry into Zion (in 950BC) was eighty-nine years (2 Samuel 7:17).
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1 Samuel 7:4 open_in_new
children. sons.
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1 Samuel 7:6 open_in_new
sinned. Hebrew. chata'. App-44.
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1 Samuel 7:7 open_in_new
lords. See note on Joshua 13:3.
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1 Samuel 7:8 open_in_new
God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4.
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1 Samuel 7:9 open_in_new
Samuel took. Samuel was. Levite, and according to 1 Chronicles 23:27-32 could do this; though according to Numbers 18:3 he could not have acted in the holy place.
offered. offered up. See App-43.
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1 Samuel 7:10 open_in_new
thundered with. great thunder. Figure of speech Polyptoton. App-6.
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1 Samuel 7:13 open_in_new
coast. border, or boundary.
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1 Samuel 7:17 open_in_new
there was his house. Compare 1 Samuel 1:19, &c.
altar. Shiloh forsaken, and Ark separated from Tabernacle. There was no chosen "place".