1 Samuel 7:5

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 for religious and political purposes; but Samuel knew that an unarmed multitude could not safely be convened in the vicinity of the Philistines.

Related Commentaries of 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...
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 ha...
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'...
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.
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.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Mizpeh ] in Benjamin. Pray ] Samuel was noted as a man of prayer (cp. Psalms 99:6 ).
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...
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 ha...
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 eith...
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...
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, an...
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...
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;...
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 dange...
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...
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 go...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
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....
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 brough...
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 Samue...
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 twent...
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 care...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Reformation in Israel
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, which was used as a place of assembly at other times also, Judges 20:1 , and I will pray for you unto...
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
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 A...

⁵ And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the LORD.

Related Commentaries of 1 Samuel 7:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

1 Samuel 7:5