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Verse 1 Samuel 7:6. _DREW WATER, AND POURED IT OUT_] It is not easy
to know what is meant by this; it is true that _pouring out water_, in
the way of _libation_, was a religious ordinance among the _...
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Two rites are brought together here which belong especially to the
Feast of Tabernacles and the Day of Atonement, respectively, namely,
drawing and pouring out water, and fasting. Hence, some think th...
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7. THE RETURN UNTO JEHOVAH AND THE DELIVERANCE
CHAPTER 7:3-14
_ 1. Samuel's message and the response of the people (1 Samuel 7:3)_
2. Gathered at Mizpah (1 Samuel 7:5)
3. The deliverance (1 Samuel...
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SAMUEL AS JUDGE. Philistines subdued by Divine intervention; probably
an ideal picture, by the Deuteronomic writer, of the happy results of
Israel's repentance and Samuel's piety peace, victory, and o...
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SINNED. Hebrew. _chata'._ App-44....
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_and drew water, and poured it out before the Lord_ A symbolical act
which has no exact parallel in the O.T., but was probably significant
of the outpouring of their hearts before Jehovah in penitence...
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The National Repentance and Reformation under Samuel
2. _And it came to pass_, &c. Better, AND IT CAME TO PASS, FROM THE
DAY WHEN THE ARK RESTED IN KIRJATH-JEARIM, THAT A LONG TIME ELAPSED,
EVEN TWEN...
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THEY GATHERED TOGETHER TO MIZPEH, AND DREW WATER, AND POURED IT OUT—
The reason why they _drew water and poured it out,_ says Houbigant, is
expressed in the next words; for they _fasted that day._ So...
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_Israel Purged at Mizpeh._ 1 Samuel 7:3-8
3 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do
return unto the Lord with all your hearts, _then_ put away the strange
gods and Ashtaroth f...
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_AND THEY GATHERED TOGETHER TO MIZPEH, AND DREW WATER, AND POURED IT
OUT BEFORE THE LORD, AND FASTED ON THAT DAY, AND SAID THERE, WE HAVE
SINNED AGAINST THE LORD. AND SAMUEL JUDGED THE CHILDREN OF ISR...
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POURED _it_ OUT] The symbolism of the act is uncertain. The most
probable explanation is that of the Targum, that it represented the
pouring out of their hearts IN repentance before the LORD: cp. 2
Sa...
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SAMUEL DELIVERS ISRAEL FROM THE PHILISTINES
The narrative in this chapter is taken from a different source from
the account which precedes....
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ISRAEL’S FIRST KING
1 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 7
V1 So men came from Kiriath Jearim to fetch the *ark of the Lord. They
took it to the house that belonged to Abinadab. His house was on a
hil...
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AND SAMUEL JUDGED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN MIZPEH. — For some
quarter of a century Samuel had been the principal personage among the
people, and had, no doubt, long exercised the varied functions of...
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וַ יִּקָּבְצ֣וּ הַ֠ מִּצְפָּתָה וַ
יִּֽשְׁאֲבוּ...
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CHAPTER VIII.
_ REPENTANCE AND REVIVAL._
1 Samuel 7:1.
WITH the men of Bethshemesh the presence of the ark had become the
same terror as it had been successively at Ashdod, Gath, and Ekron.
Instead...
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LEADING THE NATION IN GOD'S WAYS
1 Samuel 7:5
We are here taught the successive steps that must be taken if revival
is to be granted to either Church or individual.
_ 1. Unity_. All Israel was gath...
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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. It would seem that during all that time Israel wa...
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And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and (d) drew water, and poured
[it] out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We
have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children o...
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Lord, having purified themselves with it, Exodus xix 24. Others think
that it was a kind of a protestation, that they were willing to perish
if they proved faithless; (Sa) or a symbol that they reject...
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(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, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that...
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The first Book of Samuel (or of Kings as with some) brings before us
that great change for which the Book of Ruth was a preparation, and in
order to which the Spirit of God closed it with the generati...
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Samuel begins to act, by his testimony, upon the conscience of the
people, and to put away that which weakened them by dishonouring God.
He tells them that, if they will turn to Jehovah with all their...
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AND THEY GATHERED TOGETHER TO MIZPEH,.... Even all Israel, at least
the heads of the people, and representatives of them:
AND DREW WATER, AND POURED IT OUT BEFORE THE LORD; drew it from some
fountain...
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And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured [it]
out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have
sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Is...
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_They drew water and poured it out_ As an external sign, whereby they
testified both their own filthiness and need of washing by the grace
and Spirit of God, and the blood of the covenant, and their s...
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1 They of Kiriath-iearim bring the Arke into the house of Abinadab,
and sanctifie Eleazar his sonne to keepe it.
2 After twentie yeeres
3 The Israelites, by Samuels meanes, solemnly repent at Mizpeh...
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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. We are not even told whether Abinadab, to whose h...
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5,6 Israel drew water and poured it out before the Lord; signifying
their humiliation and sorrow for sin. They pour out their hearts in
repentance before the Lord. They were free and full in their
co...
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TO MIZPEH; not that beyond Jordan, of which JUDGES 11:11,29; but
another in Canaan, where the Israelites used to assemble, JUDGES 20:1
1 SAMUEL 10:17. DREW WATER, and poured it out; which they did eit...
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1 Samuel 7:6 together H6908 (H8735) Mizpah H4709 drew H7579 (H8799)
water H4325 out H8210 (H8799) before...
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THE ARK HAVING BEEN RESTORED, ISRAEL DEFEAT THE PHILISTINES THROUGH
THE PRAYERS OF SAMUEL, YHWH'S REPRESENTATIVE (1 SAMUEL 7:5).
Analysis.
a And Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I wil...
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CONTENTS: Ark brought to house of Abinadab. Revival of Mizpah. Victory
at Eben-ezer.
CHARACTERS: God, Samuel, Eleazar, Abinadab.
CONCLUSION: When we are truly sensible that by sin we have provoked
G...
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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 Samuel, a levite also. Abinadab seems to have been aged or...
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_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 twenty years the Philistines had held undisputed sway
over...
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 7:2__ Samuel has not appeared since 1
Samuel 4:1, but when he calls the people to repent of their idolatry,
they respond. He is clearly the leader of “all... Israel” ...
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 7:5 MIZPAH was probably about 7 miles (11
km) north of Jerusalem, near an important north-south road. It was a
place of assembly for all Israel, as in...
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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 brought together here
which belong respectively to the Feast of...
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EXPOSITION
1 SAMUEL 7:1
At Kirjath-jearim the people reverently undertook the charge of the
ark, and carried out their arrangements so carefully that no further
calamity occurred. On its arrival they...
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And so the men of Kirjathjearim came, and they took the ark of the
Lord; and they brought it to the house of Abinadab on the hill, and
sanctified Eleazar the son to keep the ark of the Lord. And it ca...
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1 Kings 8:47; 1 Samuel 1:15; 2 Chronicles 20:3; 2 Samuel 14:14;...
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THE ARK WITH ABINADAB
1 Samuel 7:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We cover a period of twenty years, in which the Ark was in the care of
the House of Abinadab, under the charge of his son, Eleazar.
We wish to...
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Poured it out — As an external sign, whereby they testified, both
their own filthiness and need of washing by the grace and Spirit of
God, and blood of the covenant, and their sincere desire to pour o...