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Verse 1 Samuel 7:10. _THE LORD THUNDERED WITH A GREAT THUNDER_]
Literally, _The Lord thundered with a great voice_-he confounded them
with a mighty tempest of thunder and lightning, and no doubt slew...
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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...
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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...
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THUNDERED WITH. GREAT THUNDER. Figure of speech _Polyptoton._ App-6....
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_thundered with a great thunder_ Lit., WITH A GREAT VOICE. Thunder is
the "voice of God" (Psalms 29:3-4). Cp. ch. 1Sa 2:10; 2 Samuel
22:14-15.
_discomfited them_ The Heb. word expresses _the confusion...
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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...
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THE LORD THUNDERED WITH A GREAT THUNDER— Baldwin the Second, with
other princes, marching to Damascus, fully resolved to take it by
surrender or storm, met with a check in foraging, which enraged the...
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_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...
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_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...
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SAMUEL DELIVERS ISRAEL FROM THE PHILISTINES
The narrative in this chapter is taken from a different source from
the account which precedes....
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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...
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וַ יְהִ֤י שְׁמוּאֵל֙ מַעֲלֶ֣ה הָ
עֹולָ֔ה וּ
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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...
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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...
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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...
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And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew
near to battle against Israel: but the LORD (f) thundered with a great
thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited...
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Israel. The princes of the Tyrians had come to the assistance of the
enemy; (Ecclesiasticus xlvi. 21.; Calmet) but all in vain. The
greatness of the army only increased the greatness of the carnage,
w...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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AND AS SAMUEL WAS OFFERING UP THE BURNT OFFERING.... Which he might do
by a priest, as Ben Gersom suggests, he being only a Levite; though he
being a prophet, and an extraordinary person, and this an...
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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...
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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...
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And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, while this act of
worship was still going on, THE PHILISTINES DREW NEAR TO BATTLE
AGAINST ISRAEL; BUT THE LORD THUNDERED WITH A GREAT THUNDER, with
te...
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THE PHILISTINES OVERTHROWN...
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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...
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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...
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Either by the lightnings, or thunderbolts, or other things which
accompanied the cracks of thunder; or by the Israelites, who
perceiving them to be affrighted and flee away, pursued and smote
them, as...
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1 Samuel 7:10 Samuel H8050 up H5927 (H8688) offering H5930 Philistines
H6430 near H5066 (H8738) battle H4421 Israel
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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” ...
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 7:10 CONFUSION. Compare Exodus 14:24,
where the Lord threw the Egyptian army into “panic.” Compare also
“confusion” ...
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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...
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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...
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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...