1 Samuel 7:12

Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, LORD has helped us to now.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

11And the men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them until they came under Beth-car.

13So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more within the border of Israel, and the hand of LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

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Cross References

Genesis 22:14And Abraham called the name of that place LORD-jireh. As it is said to this day, In the mount of LORD it shall be provided.

Genesis 31:45And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

Exodus 17:15And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it LORD-nissi.

Joshua 4:20And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.

1 Samuel 4:1And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer, and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.

Psalms 71:6By thee I have been held up from the womb. Thou are he who took me out of my mother's bowels. My praise shall be continually of thee.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 7:8-13

The Israelites Attacked by the Philistines; Samuel's Intercession for Israel. ( b. c. 1099.) 7 And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines. 8 And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the Lord our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines. 9 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it… Read the whole commentary →

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