Geneva Study Bible Commentary
1 Samuel 7:12
Then Samuel took a stone, and set [it] between Mizpeh and (g) Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.
(g) Which was a great rock over against Mizpeh.
Then Samuel took a stone, and set [it] between Mizpeh and (g) Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.
(g) Which was a great rock over against Mizpeh.
Verse 1 Samuel 7:12. _CALLED THE NAME OF IT EBEN-EZER_] אבן העזר _Eben haezer_, "The Stone of Help; " perhaps a _pillar_ is meant by the word _stone_....
Shen was a tooth-pointed or sharp-pointed rock (see 1 Samuel 14:4), nowhere else mentioned and not identified....
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...
_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 Samu...
DISCOURSE: 289 MEMORIALS OF GOD’S GOODNESS 1 Samuel 7:12._ Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us....
_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...
_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 -...
7:12 Shen, (a-12) Or 'the rock;' lit. 'tooth.' see ch. 14.4. ('sharp'), 5. Eben-ezer, (b-19) See ch. 4.1....
EBEN-EZER] see on 1 Samuel 4:1....
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...
BETWEEN MIZPEH AND SHEN. — The situation of Ha-Shen, “The Tooth,” has not yet been identified. It probably denotes a peak or crag, a prominent rock formation, so named, like the modern French _dent_ —...
וַ יִּקַּ֨ח שְׁמוּאֵ֜ל אֶ֣בֶן אַחַ֗ת וַ יָּ֤ש
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...
Sen, "the tooth," a craggy rock of that appearance. Syriac Beth Jasan. (Calmet) --- some take it to be the same with Bethchar. (Malvenda) --- It was before ignoble, (Salien) and the situation not know...
(12) 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. This spot between Mizpeh and Shen, was rendered the mor...
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...
_THE STONE OF HELP_ ‘Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.’ 1 Samuel 7:12 ‘Ebenezer,’ the help-stone. It was the custom of the Jews to commemorate their victories by erecting stone pillars to the glory...
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 SAMUEL TOOK A STONE, AND SET IT,.... Not for worship, but as a monument of the victory obtained by the help of God: and this he placed BETWEEN MIZPEH AND SHEN; which latter signifies a tooth, and...
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. Ver. 12. _Then Samuel took a stone, and set it._] As a tr...
_Then Samuel took a stone_ A rude, unpolished stone, which was not prohibited by that law, Leviticus 26:1, there being no danger of worshipping such a stone, and this being set up only as a monument o...
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...
Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, at the place where the two former battles with the Philistines had also been fought, AND CALLED THE NAME OF IT EBENEZER (stone of help), S...
THE PHILISTINES OVERTHROWN...
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...
EBENEZER: that is, The stone of help...
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...
A STONE; a rude, unpolished stone, which was not prohibited by that law, LEVITICUS 26:1, there being no danger of worshipping such a stone, and this being set up only as a monument of the victory. EBE...
1 Samuel 7:12 Samuel H8050 took H3947 (H8799) a H259 stone H68 set H7760 (H8799) Mizpah H4709 Shen...
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...
EBENEZER That is, The stone of help....
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...
_And Samuel took a stone._ THE EVERLASTING MEMORIAL How few of Egypt’s modern inhabitants know who built those works of wonder that still draw crowds of travellers! It might be said, in the words of...
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...
1 Samuel 4:1; 1 Samuel 5:1; 2 Corinthians 1:10; Acts 26:22; Exodus 17:1
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...
A stone — A rude unpolished stone, which was not prohibited by that law, Leviticus 26:1, there being no danger of worshipping such a stone, and this being set up only as a monument of the victory. Ebe...