Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
1 Samuel 7:11
Verse 1 Samuel 7:11. Under Beth-car.] We know not where this place was; the Septuagint have Beth-chor; the Targum, Beth-saron; and the Syriac and Arabic, Beth-jasan.
Verse 1 Samuel 7:11. Under Beth-car.] We know not where this place was; the Septuagint have Beth-chor; the Targum, Beth-saron; and the Syriac and Arabic, Beth-jasan.
BETH-CAR - This place is nowhere else mentioned. It seems to have stood on a hill overhanging the road from the Philistine territory to Mizpeh, and close to Ebenezer, 1 Samuel 4:1....
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...
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...
Total Rout of the Philistines at Ebenezer 7. _when the Philistines heard_, &c. The lords naturally regarded a national assembly of their vassals as a preliminary step towards revolt, and mustering th...
_until they came under Beth-car_ Beth-car ("_house of a lamb_," or "_house of pasture_,") was apparently on high ground overhanging the road back to Philistia....
UNDER BETH-CAR— _Beth-shan,_ says Houbigant, after the Syriac and Arabic....
_Israel Delivered Under Samuel._ 1 Samuel 7:9-17 9 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered _it for_ a burnt offering wholly unto the Lord: and Samuel cried unto the Lord for Israel; and the Lord...
_AND AS SAMUEL WAS OFFERING UP THE BURNT OFFERING, THE PHILISTINES DREW NEAR TO BATTLE AGAINST ISRAEL: BUT THE LORD THUNDERED WITH A GREAT THUNDER ON THAT DAY UPON THE PHILISTINES, AND DISCOMFITED THE...
SAMUEL DELIVERS ISRAEL FROM THE PHILISTINES The narrative in this chapter is taken from a different source from the account which precedes....
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...
UNTIL THEY CAME UNDER BETH-CAR. — “House of the Lamb,” or, as some would render it, _House of the Field._ Of this place we know nothing; it was, no doubt, a Philistine fortress, where the scattered re...
וַ יֵּ֨צְא֜וּ אַנְשֵׁ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ מִן ־הַ מ
CHAPTER IX. _ NATIONAL DELIVERANCE--THE PHILISTINES SUBDUED._ 1 Samuel 7:10. IT must have been with feelings very different from those of their last encounter, when the ark of God was carried into t...
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...
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...
_Bethchar, "the house of the penetrator." Cor denotes the celestial fluid, which the Philistines probably supposed was discharged by the heavens, independently of the great Creator. Hence their punish...
(10) And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited...
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 ISRAEL WENT OUT OF MIZPEH,.... To which they were encouraged by hearing or perceiving that the army of the Philistines was discomfited by the thunder, and lightning, and earthquake: AN...
And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until [they came] under Bethcar. Ver. 11. _Until they came under Bethcar._] The name of that rock, saith Junius,...
_The men of Israel pursued the Philistines_, &c. This victory was the more wonderful, since it does not appear that the Israelites came provided with any weapons to Mizpeh, but probably smote the Phil...
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...
THE PHILISTINES OVERTHROWN...
And the men of Israel, while the enemies turned away in confusion, WENT OUT OF MIZPEH, AND PURSUED THE PHILISTINES, AND SMOTE THEM UNTIL THEY CAME UNDER BETHCAR, below a city at some distance from the...
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...
7-12 The Philistines invaded Israel. When sinners begin to repent and reform, they must expect that Satan will muster all his force against them, and set his instruments at work to the utmost, to opp...
QUEST. Whence had they weapons wherewith to smite them? ANSW. Divers of them probably brought them to the assembly; others borrowed them at Mizpeh, or the neighbouring places; and the rest might be th...
1 Samuel 7:11 men H582 Israel H3478 out H3318 (H8799) Mizpah H4709 pursued H7291 (H8799) Philistines H6430 back...
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...
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...
_The Philistines went up against Israel._ THE HOLY WAR The revival of religion has ever had a most important bearing as social and political improvement. The return of man to God restores him to his...
_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...
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” ...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 7:7. “WHEN THE PHILISTINES HEARD,” etc. “Apprehending that such a gathering under one so well known as Samuel boded no good to their dominions, and might be in...
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...
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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...