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Verse 1 Samuel 7:4. _PUT AWAY BAALIM AND ASHTAROTH_] These were not
two _particular deities_, but two _genera_ of idols; the one
_masculine_, BAALIM; the other _feminine_, ASHTAROTH; both the words
ar...
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Compare the marginal references. Twenty years of Samuel’s life had
passed away since the last mention of him 1 Samuel 4:1. Now he appears
in the threefold character of prophet, Judge, and the acknowle...
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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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CHILDREN. sons....
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The National Repentance and Reformation under Samuel
2. _And it came to pass_, &c. Better, AND IT CAME TO PASS, FROM THE
DAY WHEN THE ARK RESTED IN KIRJATH-JEARIM, THAT A LONG TIME ELAPSED,
EVEN TWEN...
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_Israel Purged at Mizpeh._ 1 Samuel 7:3-8
3 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 f...
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_THEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID PUT AWAY BAALIM AND ASHTAROTH, AND
SERVED THE LORD ONLY._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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BAALIM AND ASHTAROTH] see on Judges 2:11; Judges 2:13....
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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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THEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID PUT AWAY BAALIM AND ASHTAROTH. — The
answer of the people showed how well and thoroughly the
prophet-statesman had done his Master’s work. Through the land of
Israel th...
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וַ יָּסִ֨ירוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל
אֶת ־הַ בּ
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CHAPTER VIII.
_ REPENTANCE AND REVIVAL._
1 Samuel 7:1.
WITH the men of Bethshemesh the presence of the ark had become the
same terror as it had been successively at Ashdod, Gath, and Ekron.
Instead...
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RASHNESS PUNISHED; REVERENCE BLESSED
1 Samuel 6:13; 1 Samuel 7:1
The new cart, with its precious burden, must have come upon the men of
Beth-shemesh like an apparition. The Ark was welcomed by them,...
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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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(4) Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and
served the LORD only.
Baalim is plural, meaning several God's. Ashtaroth is singular and
feminine, and therefore means but one,...
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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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THEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID PUT AWAY BAALIM AND ASHTAROTH,....
Both their male and female deities, of which see Judges 2:13
AND SERVED THE LORD ONLY; Dr. Lightfoot i observes, that a spirit of
re...
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Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and
served the LORD only.
Ver. 4. _Then the children of Israel did put away, &c._] Their he-gods
and their she-gods: so powerful is the...
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_Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim_, &c. Samuel's
reproofs and instructions, and the representations he made of their
sin and danger, touched their hearts, and induced them to break off...
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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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Then the children of Israel, heeding the earnest words of their great
prophet and leader, DID PUT AWAY BAALIM AND ASHTAROTH, they completely
did away with the worship of strange gods, AND SERVED THE L...
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REFORMATION IN ISRAEL...
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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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1-4 God will find a resting-place for his ark; if some thrust it from
them, the hearts of others shall be inclined to receive it. It is no
new thing for God's ark to be in a private house. Christ and...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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1 Samuel 7:4 children H1121 Israel H3478 away H5493 (H8686) Baals
H1168 Ashtoreths H6252 served H5647 (H8799) LORD...
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CHAPTER 7.
Samuel Successfully Begins His Public Ministry And Establishes His
Rule Over Israel Under YHWH, Finally Driving The Philistines Back To
Their Own Territory And ‘Judging' Israel From Then...
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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 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 7:3 RETURNING here means repenting, that
is, a change of direction back to the Lord. Samuel gives three
commands: (1) turn away from idolatry; (2) direct the heart to the
LOR...
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—
1 Samuel 7:3. “IF YE DO RETURN,” etc. “These words prove that a
profession of repentance on the part of Israel had preceded them.…
The profession, therefore, must be lo...
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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...