1 Samuel 7:6,1 Samuel 7:15-17

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - 1 Samuel 7:5-17

Leading the Nation in God’s Ways 1 Samuel 7:5-17 We are here taught the successive steps that must be taken if revival is to be granted to either Church or individual. 1. Unity . All Israel was gathered. The divisions and jealousies of preceding years were renounced. 2. Confession . The people poured out their hearts before the Lord. 3. The abandonment of false gods . “They put away the Baalim and Ashtaroth and served the Lord only.” 4. Intercessory prayer . The one condition of revival... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 1 Samuel 7:1-17

The Ark found its resting place temporarily at Gibeah, in the house of Abinadab. A dark period of twenty years is passed over without detailed record. It would seem that during all that time Israel was under Philistine rule, without any definite center of worship; for while the Ark was resting in the house of an individual, the Tabernacle was in all probability dismantled. During this period Samuel was advancing from youth to manhood and approaching the hour of his leadership. This period was... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - 1 Samuel 7:1-17

The Ark with Abinadab 1 Samuel 7:1-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We cover a period of twenty years, in which the Ark was in the care of the House of Abinadab, under the charge of his son, Eleazar. We wish to emphasize just one thing: The sanctifying of Eleazar to keep the Ark. 1. The fuller meaning of the word "sanctified." The Philistines had suffered at the hands of the Ark, because they were defiled with iniquity. For this cause the Ark meant disaster, and not blessing. The same Lord who is... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 7:5-14

The Ark Having Been Restored, Israel Defeat the Philistines Through The Prayers of Samuel, YHWH’s Representative (1 Samuel 7:5-14 ). Analysis. a And Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray for you to YHWH. And they gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before YHWH, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against YHWH.” And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah (1 Samuel 7:5-6). b And when the Philistines heard that the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 7:2-17

1 Samuel 7:2-Esther : . Samuel as Judge.— Philistines subdued by Divine intervention; probably an ideal picture, by the Deuteronomic writer, of the happy results of Israel’ s repentance and Samuel’ s piety— peace, victory, and orthodoxy. The section is the typical form of the Deuteronomic accounts of the Judges— apostasy, oppression, repentance, deliverance. The statements that the Philistines ceased to invade Israel, and that the Israelites recovered the Philistine cities from Ekron to Gath,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Samuel 7:6

To Mizpeh; not that beyond Jordan, of which Judges 11:11,Judges 11:29; but another in Canaan, where the Israelites used to assemble, Judges 20:1; 1 Samuel 10:17. Drew water, and poured it out; which they did either, 1. Figuratively; they drew tears out of their hearts, and poured out of their eyes as it were rivers of water; such descriptions of penitential sorrow being not unusual. See Psalms 6:7; Psalms 119:136; Jeremiah 19:1; Lamentations 3:48,Lamentations 3:49. Or rather, 2. Properly,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Samuel 7:5-6

CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—1 Samuel 7:6. “Drew water, and poured it out before the Lord,” etc. “It is remarkable that two rites are brought together here which belong respectively to the Feast of Tabernacles and the Day of Atonement. The first is not, indeed, prescribed by the law, but it was the custom for the High Priest to fill a golden vessel with water drawn from the fountain of Siloam, and to pour it over the sacrifices on the Feast of Tabernacles. Allusions to this, which was a joyful... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 7:1-17

Chapter 7And so the men of Kirjathjearim came, and they took the ark of the Lord; and they brought it to the house of Abinadab on the hill, and sanctified Eleazar the son to keep the ark of the Lord. And it came to pass, while the ark was there at Kirjathjearim, it was there for a long time; for twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord. And Samuel spake to all the house of Israel, saying, If you do return unto the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the strange... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Samuel 7:1-17

1 Samuel 7:1 . Sanctified Eleazar, a levite, to keep the ark. Holy persons were consecrated by imposition of hands and by sacrifices, as was Samuel, a levite also. Abinadab seems to have been aged or dead. All the priests were purified anew, before they touched the holy vessels. 1 Samuel 7:2 . Lamented after the Lord; for they had heard anew of the fame of his ark. But the first work of repentance is to put away our idols and our sins. 1 Samuel 7:3 . Ashtaroth. See on Judges 10:6.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 7:3-11

1 Samuel 7:3-11And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the Lord with all your hearts.Samuel the JudgeFor more than twenty years the Philistines had held undisputed sway over the greater part of the territory of Israel. Shechem and Shiloh, the ancient sanctuaries of worship, were both in the possession of the Philistines. Even the sacred ark of the covenant had been surrendered ingloriously into the hands of the uncircumcised. Restored by miracle, it still... read more

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