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1 Samuel 7:10-13

King James Version (KJV)

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Scripture focus

10. And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel. 11. And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until [they came] under Bethcar. 12. 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. 13. So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Israel: and the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

1 Samuel 7:10-13 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on 1 Samuel 7:10

Theological / Devotional

The Lord thundered. In this case God’s answer (see Ps. 99:6) came as a thunderstorm. For other instances of God’s miraculous use of the forces of nature, see on 1 Sam. 14:15. Having renounced their idols and confessed their departure from the Lord, in humiliation of spirit, they were to witness how readily God took them back under His protection, and demonstrated a heavenly Father’s love for the returning prodigal. God neither expressed bitterness nor held aloof until His people, through years of sacrificial humility, had demonstrated their change of attitude. Immediately He spread over them His protecting arm. Well could they afford to make this place a memorial of God’s everlasting devotion and loving watchcare and of His power to protect and deliver.

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