Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
1 Samuel 7:1-17
Samuel delivers Israel from the Philistines
The narrative in this chapter is taken from a different source from the account which precedes.
Samuel delivers Israel from the Philistines
The narrative in this chapter is taken from a different source from the account which precedes.
CHAPTER VII _The men of Kirjah-jearim bring the ark from Beth-shemesh, and_ _consecrate Eleazar, the son of Abinadab, to keep it; and there_ _it continued twenty years_, 1, 2. _Samuel reproves and...
This verse belongs more properly to 1 Samuel 6. Abinadab and his sons were probably of the house of Levi. The catastrophe at Bethshemesh must inevitably have made the Israelites very careful to pay du...
CHAPTER S 6:1-7:2 _ 1. The counsel of the Philistines (1 Samuel 6:1)_ 2. The ark at Beth-shemesh (1 Samuel 6:10) 3. The ark at Kirjath-jearim (1 Samuel 6:21;...
1 SAMUEL 6:1 TO 1 SAMUEL 7:1. ARK BROUGHT BACK TO BETH-SHEMESH; PLAGUE BREAKS OUT THERE; ARK HOUSED AT KIRIATH-JEARIM. 1 Samuel 6:1 may not belong to the main story; 2 would be a better continuation...
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...
1 Samuel 7:1. _into the house of Abinadab in the hill_ ON the hill, some eminence in or near the town. In 2 Samuel 6:4-5, the E. V. wrongly takes the same word as a proper name, "_in Gibeah_." Abinad...
_The Ark in the House of Abinadab._ 1 Samuel 7:1-2 And the men of Kirjath-jearim came, and fetched up the ark of the Lord, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar...
_AND THE MEN OF KIRJATH-JE'ARIM CAME, AND FETCHED UP THE ARK OF THE LORD, AND BROUGHT IT INTO THE HOUSE OF ABINADAB IN THE HILL, AND SANCTIFIED ELEAZAR HIS SON TO KEEP THE ARK OF THE LORD._ Brought i...
7:1 hill, (c-24) Or 'at Gibeah.'...
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...
THE ARK OF THE LORD. — Kirjath-jearim, the home of the Ark for nearly fifty years, was probably selected as the resting-place of the sacred emblem as being the nearest large city to Beth-shemesh then...
וַ יָּבֹ֜אוּ אַנְשֵׁ֣י ׀ קִרְיַ֣ת יְעָרִ֗ים וַֽ יַּעֲלוּ֙...
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...
RASHNESS PUNISHED; REVERENCE BLESSED 1 Samuel 6:13; 1 Samuel 7:1 The new cart, with its precious burden, must have come upon the men of Beth-shemesh like an apparition. The Ark was welcomed by them,...
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...
And the men of (a) Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the ark of the LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD. (a) A cit...
In Gabaa. That is, on the hill, for Gabaa signifieth a hill. (Challoner) (1 Paralipomenon xiii. 6.) --- It was perhaps the citadel, (Haydock) or an elevated situation, such as were generally chosen fo...
CONTENTS The events recorded in this Chapter are much more pleasing than what hath been said of Israel a long time before. Here is an account of the men of Kirjath-jearim fetching the ark and placing...
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...
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...
AND THE MEN OF KIRJATHJEARIM CAME AND FETCHED UP THE ARK OF THE LORD,.... From Bethshemesh, which was near unto them, as Josephus g says; they made no difficulty of fetching it, but gladly received it...
And the men of Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the ark of the LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD. Ver. 1. _And...
_The men of Kirjath-jearim fetched up the ark_ That is, by the priests appointed to that work. _Into the house of Abinadab_ As the care of the ark belonged to the Levites, doubtless Abinadab was of th...
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...
REFORMATION IN ISRAEL...
And the men of Kirjath-jearim, to whom the Bethshemites had sent word of the return of the ark, 1 Samuel 6:21, CAME, AND FETCHED UP THE ARK OF THE LORD, AND BROUGHT IT INTO THE HOUSE OF ABINADAB IN TH...
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...
1-4 God will find a resting-place for his ark; if some thrust it from them, the hearts of others shall be inclined to receive it. It is no new thing for God's ark to be in a private house. Christ and...
1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 7 The ark is placed in Kirjath-jearim; Eleazar's son is sanctified to keep it, 1 SAMUEL 7:1,2. Samuel exhorts them to repent, and put away their idols; they obey him. A fast at Mizpeh...
1 Samuel 7:1 men H582 Jearim H7157 came H935 (H8799) took H5927 (H8686) ark H727 LORD H3068 brought...
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...
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...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 7:1 ELEAZAR may have been descended from Aaron, and that may have been why the people of Beth-shemesh asked Kiriath-jearim to take the ark. (Aaron also had a son named Eleaza...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 7:1. “THE HOUSE OF ABINADAB,” etc. “Why the ark was not carried back to Shiloh is uncertain. The reason _may_ be that the Philistines had conquered Shiloh, and...
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...
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...
1 Chronicles 13:5; 1 Chronicles 13:6; 1 Chronicles 13:7; 1 Samuel 6:21;...
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...
Fetch up — That is, by the priests appointed to that work. Hill — This place they chose, both because it was a strong place, where it would be the most safe; and an high place, and therefore visible a...