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.
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Gill's Exposition
And Samuel took a stone, and set it,.... Not for worship, but as a monument of the victory obtained by the help of God: and this he placed
between Mizpeh and Shen; which latter signifies a tooth,…
Barnes' Notes
Shen was a tooth-pointed or sharp-pointed rock (see 1Sa 14:4), nowhere else mentioned and not identified.
Adam Clarke
Called the name of it Eben-ezer - אבן העזר Eben haezer, "The Stone of Help;" perhaps a pillar is meant by the word stone.
Here, I. The Philistines invade Israel (Sa1 7:7), taking umbrage from that general meeting for repentance and prayer as if it had been a rendezvous for war, and, if so, they thought it prudent to keep…
Cambridge Bible
Eben-ezer i.e. "The Stone of Help," a memorial set up between Mizpah and Shen, (in Heb. with the definite article) = "The Tooth," probably some conspicuous "tooth" or spire of rock. Cp. 1Sa 14:4. The…
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