1And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Ebenezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.
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Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel.
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.
And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod.
And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.
Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)The first words of this paragraph, which relate to Samuel, that his word came to all Israel , seem not to have any reference to the following story, as if it was by any direction of his that the Israelites went out against the Philistines. Had they consulted him, though but newly initiated as a prophet, his counsel might have stood them in more stead than the presence of the ark did; but perhaps t…
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