1 Samuel 7:12 “Afterward, Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen.…”

1 Samuel 7:12

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.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.

World English Bible

Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, “The LORD helped us until now.”

American Standard Version

Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath Jehovah helped us.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then Samuel tooke a stone and pitched it betweene Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name thereof, Eben-ezer, and he sayd, Hitherto hath the Lord holpen vs.

Darby Translation

And Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, and said, Hitherto Jehovah has helped us.

Young's Literal Translation

And Samuel taketh a stone, and setteth [it] between Mizpeh and Shen, and calleth its name Eben-Ezer, saying, 'Hitherto hath Jehovah helped us.'

Bible in Basic English

Then Samuel took a stone and put it up between Mizpah and Jeshanah, naming it Eben-ezer, and saying, Up to now the Lord has been our help.

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Cross references

“took a stone”

Joshua 4:9 Genesis 35:14 Genesis 31:45–52 Joshua 4:20–24 Isaiah 19:19 Genesis 28:18

Joshua 4:9 · BSB

Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant stood. And the stones are there to this day.

Genesis 35:14 · BSB

So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.

Genesis 31:45–52 · BSB

So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar,

Joshua 4:20–24 · BSB

And there at Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.

Isaiah 19:19 · BSB

In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the center of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD near her border.

Genesis 28:18 · BSB

Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,

“Ebenezer”

Genesis 22:14 1 Samuel 5:1 Exodus 17:15 1 Samuel 4:1

Genesis 22:14 · BSB

And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”

1 Samuel 5:1 · BSB

After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod,

Exodus 17:15 · BSB

And Moses built an altar and named it The LORD Is My Banner.

1 Samuel 4:1 · BSB

Thus the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now the Israelites went out to meet the Philistines in battle and camped at Ebenezer, while the Philistines camped at Aphek.

“Hitherto”

2 Corinthians 1:10 Acts 26:22 Psalm 71:6 Psalm 71:17 Isaiah 46:3 Isaiah 46:4

2 Corinthians 1:10 · BSB

He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,

Acts 26:22 · BSB

But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:

Psalm 71:6 · BSB

I have leaned on You since birth; You pulled me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always for You.

Psalm 71:17 · BSB

O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.

Isaiah 46:3 · BSB

“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.

Isaiah 46:4 · BSB

Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11Then the men of Israel charged out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, striking them down all the way to an area below Beth-car.

13So the Philistines were subdued, and they stopped invading the territory of Israel. And the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

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