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.
Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen - on an open spot between the town and 'the crag' (some well-known rock in the neighbourhood). A huge stone pillar was erected as a monument of their victory (Leviticus 26:1).
The name ... Eben-ezer - i:e., stone of help [Septuagint, Abenezer, lithos tou boeethou]; a memorial of the signal and seasonable deliverance granted by Yahweh. "Set it between Mizpeh and Shen" х ha-Mitspaah (H4709), the watch-tower] - a conspicuous height a few miles north of Jerusalem х ha-Sheen (H8129), the tooth or crag], not yet identified. Josephus ('Antiquities,' b. 6:, ch. 2:, sec. 2) says, 'The place was called Beth-car, where Samuel set up a stone as a boundary of their victory and the enemy's flight, and called it the stone of power, as a monument of that power which God had given them against their enemies.'
Saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us, х `azaaraanuw (H5826)]. All large stones in the East receive names, of which there are several instances in Scripture (cf. 1 Samuel 20:19; 1 Kings 1:9).