1 Samuel 7:12 meaning and explanation
Afterward, Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.”
1 Samuel 7:12, Berean Standard Bible
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Samuel speaks here as Israel's judge and prophet, after the LORD has routed the Philistines with thunder during Samuel's sacrifice at Mizpah. Setting up a stone between Mizpah and Shen, he names it Ebenezer, from the Hebrew ezer, meaning help, so the name says "stone of help." The stone is a witness, a physical marker that recalls a specific deliverance for a people who had just put away foreign gods and confessed their sin.
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