1 Samuel 7:12
And Samuel took a stone, and set it up between Mizpah and the old city; and he called the name of it Ebenezer, stone of the helper; and he said, Hitherto has the Lord helped us.
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Genesis 22:14And Abraham called the name of that place, The Lord hath seen; that they might say today, In the Mount the Lord was seen.
Genesis 31:45And Jacob having taken a stone, set it up for a pillar.
Exodus 17:15And Moses built an altar to the Lord, and called the name of it, The Lord my Refuge.
Joshua 4:20And Joshua set these twelve stones which he took out of Jordan, in Gilgal,
1 Samuel 4:1And it came to pass in those days that the Philistines gathered themselves together against Israel to war; and Israel went out to meet them and encamped at Ebenezer, and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.
Psalms 71:6He shall come down as rain upon a fleece; 1 And as drops falling upon the earth. 1
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 →