1 Samuel 7:12

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Summary

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.

Took a stone

Ebenezer

Hitherto

General references

Bible References

Took a stone

And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.

And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. And he poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.

And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood, and they are there to this day.

And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God. And he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of LORD.

In that day shall there be an altar to LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to LORD at the border of it.

Ebenezer

And 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.

Now the Philistines had taken the ark of God, and they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

And 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.

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

Hitherto

By 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.

Hearken to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne [by me] from their birth, who have been carried from the womb.

Having therefore experienced the help from God, I stand to this day solemnly declaring both to small and great, saying nothing apart from what both the prophets and Moses said was going to happen,

Who rescued us out of so great a death, and does rescue, in whom we have hoped that he will also still rescue.

General references

And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. And he poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.

Our fathers trusted in thee. They trusted, and thou delivered them.

Nevertheless he regarded their distress when he heard their cry.

Who rescued us out of so great a death, and does rescue, in whom we have hoped that he will also still rescue.