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THE FIRST BOOK OF
SAMUEL
OTHERWISE CALLED
THE FIRST BOOK OF THE KINGS
CHAPTER 7
  12 Then Samuel took a astone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it bEben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.

Footnotes
12a
Josh. 24: 26.
  26 ¶ And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great astone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the Lord.
b
IE The stone of help.
1 Sam. 4: 1.
  1 And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside aEben-ezer: and the Philistines pitched in bAphek.
Josh. 5: 1.
  1 And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, aheard that the Lord had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their bheart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.