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AND THERE HE BUILT AN ALTAR - Whether this altar was in connection
with the tabernacle or not we have no means of deciding, since we are
in complete ignorance as to where the tabernacle was at this ti...
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8. SAMUEL EXERCISING HIS OFFICE AND HIS FAILURE
Chapter S 7:15-8:3
_ 1. Samuel the Prophet-Judge (1 Samuel 7:15)_
2. His failure (1 Samuel 8:1)
Samuel's activity as the great prophet-judge is now s...
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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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THERE WAS HIS HOUSE. Compare 1 Samuel 1:19, &c.
ALTAR. Shiloh forsaken, and Ark separated from Tabernacle. There was
no chosen "place"....
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_to Ramah_ See note on ch. 1 Samuel 1:1. Samuel chose his native place
for his usual official residence, and made it a centre of religious
worship by building an altar to Jehovah.
Here ends the first...
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Summary Account of Samuel's Judgeship
13. _So the Philistines were subdued_ Cp. Judges 3:30; Judges 4:23-24.
The word signifies "_were brought low_," but does not imply complete
subjugation. The forty...
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DISCOURSE: 291
SAMUEL’S JUDICIAL CHARACTER
1 Samuel 7:15. _And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life. And
he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and
Mizpeh, and judged Is...
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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 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
(Robins...
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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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RAMAN. — The same Ramah “of the Watchers” where Elkanah and
Hannah had dwelt. After the destruction of Shiloh, Samuel seems to
have fixed his abode in his father’s city.
AND THERE HE BUILT AN ALTAR. —...
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וּ תְשֻׁבָתֹ֤ו הָ רָמָ֨תָה֙ כִּֽי
־שָׁ֣ם בֵּי
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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 his return [was] to Ramah; for there [was] his house; and there he
judged Israel; and there he built an (i) altar unto the LORD.
(i) Which was not contrary to the Law: for as yet a certain place...
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_Ramatha; his native place. His high office would not allow him to
remain always near the tabernacle, chap. i. 11., and 28. (Calmet) ---
Lord, by his direction, (Menochius) both to satisfy his own dev...
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(15) And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life. (16) And he
went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh,
and judged Israel in all those places. (17) And his return was...
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REFLECTIONS
REMARK, my soul, in the perusal of this Chapter, the first renewings
of grace in the blessed fruits and effects of it; all hearts, like
those of Israel, then will go forth in Lamentations...
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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 HIS RETURN WAS TO RAMAH,.... When he had gone his circuit, he came
back to this city, which was his native place, and where his father
and mother had dwelt, see 1 Samuel 1:1
FOR THERE WAS HIS HOU...
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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.
Ver. 17. _And his return was to Ramah._] There was his house.
_ There...
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_Built an altar_ That, by joining sacrifices with his prayers, he
might the better obtain direction and assistance from God upon all
emergencies. And this was done by prophetical inspiration, as appea...
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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 his return was to Ramah, to this city he always came back; FOR
THERE WAS HIS HOUSE; AND THERE HE JUDGED ISRAEL, when not absent on
one of his circuit-court trips; AND THERE HE BUILT AN ALTAR UNTO...
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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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13-17 In this great revival of true religion, the ark was neither
removed to Shiloh, nor placed with the tabernacle any where else. This
disregard to the Levitical institutions showed that their typic...
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That by joining sacrifices with his prayers he might the better obtain
direction and assistance from God upon all emergencies. OBJECT. It was
unlawful to build another altar for sacrifice besides that...
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1 Samuel 7:17 returned H8666 Ramah H7414 home H1004 judged H8199
(H8804) Israel H3478 built H1129 (H8799) altar...
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SAMUEL JUDGES ISRAEL FAITHFULLY AND SUCCESSFULLY (1 SAMUEL 7:15).
Samuel's judgeship after the deliverance of Israel from the
Philistines is passed over very briefly, for the book is not a history
of...
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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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_And Samuel judged Israel all the darts of his life._
THE PROPHET JUDGE
In the hopeful emergency of Israel’s lamenting after Jehovah,
“Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel;” and the clear, brigh...
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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 7:15. “AND SAMUEL JUDGED ISRAEL.” “We must regard
Samuel’s judging as a directing and ordering, in accordance with the
above act of repentance, of the inner affairs of the people, who were
by...
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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...
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Built an altar — That by joining sacrifices with his prayers, he
might the better obtain direction and assistance from God upon all
emergencies. And this was done by prophetical inspiration, as appear...