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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_....
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Shen was a tooth-pointed or sharp-pointed rock (see 1 Samuel 14:4),
nowhere else mentioned and not identified....
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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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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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_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...
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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....
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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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_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 -...
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7:12 Shen, (a-12) Or 'the rock;' lit. 'tooth.' see ch. 14.4.
('sharp'), 5. Eben-ezer, (b-19) See ch. 4.1....
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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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EBEN-EZER] see on 1 Samuel 4:1....
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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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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_ —...
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וַ יִּקַּ֨ח שְׁמוּאֵ֜ל אֶ֣בֶן אַחַ֗ת
וַ יָּ֤ש
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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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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....
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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...
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(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...
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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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_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...
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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 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...
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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...
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_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...
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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 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...
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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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EBENEZER:
that is, The stone of help...
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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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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...
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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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EBENEZER
That is, The stone of help....
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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 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...
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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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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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1 Samuel 4:1; 1 Samuel 5:1; 2 Corinthians 1:10; Acts 26:22; Exodus
17:1
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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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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...