1 Samuel 7

Treated in 10 passages across the library.

  • 7:12 Then Samuel took a single stone and placed it between Mizpah and Shen. He called it Ebenezer and said, "To this point the LORD has helped us." 4
  • 7:7 When the Philistines heard that the Israelites had gathered at Mizpah, the rulers of the Philistines marched up against Israel. The Israelites heard about it and were afraid of the Philistines. 2
  • 7:9 Then Samuel took a young lamb that was still nursing and offered it whole as a burnt offering to the LORD. He cried out to the LORD for Israel, and the LORD answered him. 2
  • 7:3 Then Samuel said to the whole house of Israel, "If you are coming back to the LORD with all your heart, get rid of the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth that are among you. Set your hearts firmly on the LORD and serve him alone, and he will rescue you from the power of the Philistines." 1
  • 7:6 After gathering at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out in the presence of the LORD. They fasted that day and confessed there, "We have sinned against the LORD." It was at Mizpah that Samuel judged the Israelites. 1

Open Word Bible

  1. Journal of an Expedition up the Niger · Samuel Ajayi Crowther

    Sickness at the Confluence cites 1 Sam. vii. 9

    …of traffic. October 22 : Sunday. Held service at half-past ten A. M., and preached from 1 Sam. vii. 9 — 12. Truly we have much cause for raising our Ebenezer to God. All hands rested from…

  2. Portraits of Courage – Samuel Ajayi Crowther · Ochorus Originals

    The Niger, 1841 cites 1 Samuel 7:12

    …when he set up a stone of remembrance after a victory: “Hitherto hath Jehovah helped us” (1 Samuel 7:12, ASV). He would use the phrase again and again. The steamers pushed slowly up through the…

  3. Portraits of Courage – Samuel Ajayi Crowther · Ochorus Originals

    A Weaned Child cites 1 Samuel 7:12

    …the stone that Samuel set up after a victory, saying “Hitherto hath Jehovah helped us” (1 Samuel 7:12, ASV). When something bad happened, he looked, as he wrote in 1868, “above to the Hand…

  4. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    December cites 1 Samuel 7:12

    …and spiritual kind of fellowship. December 29 “Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.” (1 Samuel 7:12) The word “hitherto” seems like a hand pointing in the direction of the past. Twenty…

  5. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    4.6 Prayer cites 1 Sam 7: 9

    …the hope and confidence of his merits. ‘Samuel took a sucking lamb and offered it,’ &c. 1 Sam 7: 9. We must carry the lamb Christ in the arms of our faith, and so shall we prevail in…

  6. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    Discourse 7 cites 1 Sam. 7:6

    …them “with a great thunder, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel.” (1 Sam. 7:6.) So Ezra: “I proclaimed a fast at the river Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves…

  7. George Müller of Bristol · Arthur T. Pierson

    Appendix A: Scripture Texts That Moulded George Müller cites 1 Sam. vii. 12

    …unto the day is the evil thereof." (Matt. vi. 34.) "Hitherto hath the Lord helped us." (1 Sam. vii. 12.) "Oh taste and see that the Lord is good:" "Blessed is the man that trusteth in Him!"…

  8. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Mercy of God cites I Sam 7:7

    …in your arms, for all the mercy comes through Christ. ‘Samuel took a sucking lamb,; I Sam 7:7; carry the lamb Christ in your arms, go in his name, present his merits; say, Lord! here…

  9. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Covenant of Grace cites I Sam 7:3

    …the Lord with all your hearts, put away the strange gods; and they put away Ashtaroth,’ I Sam 7:3, viz. their female gods. Will any king enter into covenant with that man who is in league…

  10. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 4, Chapter 20 — Of Civil Government cites 1 Sam. 7:7

    …men not only speak evil of dignities, but would not even have God to reign over them (1 Sam. 7:7). For if this was truly said of the people of Israel, when they declined the authority of…