_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 it into the house of Abinadab. Why it was not transported at once to Shiloh, where the tabernacle and... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHILE THE ARK ABODE IN KIRJATH-JE'ARIM, THAT THE TIME WAS LONG; FOR IT WAS TWENTY YEARS: AND ALL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL LAMENTED AFTER THE LORD._ The ark abode ... twenty years. It appears in the subsequent history that a much longer period elapsed before its final removal from K... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 FROM AMONG YOU, AND PREPARE YOUR HEARTS UNTO THE LORD, AND SERVE HIM ONLY: AND HE WILL DELIVER YOU OUT OF THE HAND OF THE PHILISTINES._ SAMUEL SPAK... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID PUT AWAY BAALIM AND ASHTAROTH, AND SERVED THE LORD ONLY._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 ISRAEL IN MIZPEH._ Samuel judged ... Israel in Mizpeh. At the time of Eli's death he could not have mu... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THE PHILISTINES HEARD THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE GATHERED TOGETHER TO MIZPEH, THE LORDS OF THE PHILISTINES WENT UP AGAINST ISRAEL. AND WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HEARD IT, THEY WERE AFRAID OF THE PHILISTINES._ WHEN THE PHILISTINES HEARD ... The character and importance of the nation... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SAID TO SAMUEL, CEASE NOT TO CRY UNTO THE LORD OUR GOD FOR US, THAT HE WILL SAVE US OUT OF THE HAND OF THE PHILISTINES._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 HEARD HIM._ Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the Lord. Samuel was not a priest, nor of the priestly tribe; ye... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 THEM; AND THEY WERE SMITTEN BEFORE ISRAEL._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 - on an open spot between the town and 'the crag' (some well-known rock in the neighbourhood). A huge... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO THE PHILISTINES WERE SUBDUED, AND THEY CAME NO MORE INTO THE COAST OF ISRAEL: AND THE HAND OF THE LORD WAS AGAINST THE PHILISTINES ALL THE DAYS OF SAMUEL._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CITIES WHICH THE PHILISTINES HAD TAKEN FROM ISRAEL WERE RESTORED TO ISRAEL, FROM EKRON EVEN UNTO GATH; AND THE COASTS THEREOF DID ISRAEL DELIVER OUT OF THE HANDS OF THE PHILISTINES. AND THERE WAS PEACE BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE AMORITES._ The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAMUEL JUDGED ISRAEL ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE._ Samuel judged Israel ...... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE WENT FROM YEAR TO YEAR IN CIRCUIT TO BETHEL, AND GILGAL, AND MIZPEH, AND JUDGED ISRAEL IN ALL THOSE PLACES._ In all those places, [Septuagint, en pasi tois eegiasmenois toutois, in all these consecrated (holy) places]. He voluntarily performed the functions of an itinerant judge, for the co... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HIS RETURN WAS TO RAMAH; FOR THERE WAS HIS HOUSE; AND THERE HE JUDGED ISRAEL; AND THERE HE BUILT AN ALTAR UNTO THE LORD._ His return was to Ramah - not at Nabi-Samuel; the site uncertain (Robinson's 'Biblical Researches,' 2:, pp 40, 141, 331-334; Wilson's 'Lands of the Bible,' 2: p. 36). [But... [ Continue Reading ]