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Verse 1 Samuel 7:14. _THE CITIES WHICH THE PHILISTINES HAD TAKEN_] We
are not informed of the particulars of these reprisals, but we may
rest assured all this was not done in one day: perhaps the _ret...
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This shows the vigour and success of Samuel’s government. He seems
not only to have expelled the Philistines from the interior of the
Israelite country, but to have attacked them in their own land, an...
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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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_from Ekron even unto Gath_ The towns which lay on the Danite frontier
between these places were restored to Israel, not however including
Ekron and Gath themselves. There is no evidence that Gath had...
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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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THERE WAS PEACE BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE AMORITES— The misfortunes
which befel the Philistines influenced the conduct of all the other
Canaanites. The Amorites, who, on account of their superiority,
som...
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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 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...
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THE COASTS THEREOF] i.e. the districts round the towns. AMORITES] i.e.
the old Canaanite inhabitants of the hill-country: see on Judges 1:34.
Israelite and Canaanite made peace in front of a common en...
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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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THE CITIES. — The immediate result of Samuel’s great victory at
Eben-ezer, and the renovated national spirit of the people, was their
recovery of the towns and villages which during the late disastrou...
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וַ תָּשֹׁ֣בְנָה הֶ עָרִ֡ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר
לָֽקְחוּ ־
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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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Geth, which two cities still continued in their possession. Others,
which had fallen to the share of Dan, they gave up, which explains
Judges xviii. 1, 31. --- Philistines. Here ended the forty years'...
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(14) 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 t...
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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 THE CITIES WHICH THE PHILISTINES HAD TAKEN FROM ISRAEL WERE
RESTORED TO ISRAEL,.... We nowhere read that the Israelites went out
to war with them, and took these cities from them by besieging and...
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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...
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_There was peace_ An agreement for the cessation of all acts of
hostility. _Between Israel and the Amorites_ That is, the Canaanites,
often called Amorites, because these were formerly the most valian...
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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 the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were
restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath, these cities being on
the Philistine frontier. These cities themselves were clearly not
i...
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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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THE CITIES WERE RESTORED TO ISRAEL by the Philistines, who, it seems,
were frightened into this restitution by their dread of Samuel, and of
the Divine vengeance. OBJECT. The Philistines had cities an...
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1 Samuel 7:14 cities H5892 Philistines H6430 taken H3947 (H8804)
Israel H3478 restored H7725 (H8799) Israel H3478 E
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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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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 7:14 RESTORED TO ISRAEL, FROM EKRON TO
GATH probably means that the Israelite territories that had come under
the control of those two Philistine cities were now freed. peace...
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—
1 Samuel 7:13. “THEY CAME NO MORE.” “They no more invaded the
territory of Israel with lasting success as they had done before.”
The words which immediately follow—“THE...
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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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Deuteronomy 7:16; Deuteronomy 7:2; Judges 4:17; Psalms 106:34...
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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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Peace — An agreement for the cessation of all acts of hostility.
Amorites — That is, the Canaanites, often called Amorites, because
these were formerly the most valiant of all those nations, and the
f...