Eben-ezer i.e. "The Stone of Help," a memorial set up between Mizpah and Shen, (in Heb. with the definite article) = "The Tooth," probably some conspicuous "tooth" or spire of rock. Cp. 1 Samuel 14:4. The exact place is unknown, but "exactly at the spot where twenty years before they had obtained their great victory, the Philistines were totally routed." [See however Add. Note IX. p. 245.]

Hitherto, &c. i.e. Up to this time. The deliverances of the past are a pledge of continued help for the future.

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