1 Raja-raja 8:15

8:15 He said, “The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because he has fulfilled ¹  what he promised ²  my father David.

1 Raja-raja 8:2

8:2 All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon during the festival ³  in the month Ethanim ⁴  (the seventh month).

1 Samuel 7:12

7:12 Samuel took a stone and placed it between Mizpah and Shen. ⁵  He named it Ebenezer, ⁶  saying, “Up to here the Lord has helped us.”

1 Samuel 7:16

7:16 Year after year he used to travel the circuit of Bethel, ⁷  Gilgal, and Mizpah; he used to judge Israel in all of these places.

1 Samuel 7:2

Further Conflict with the Philistines

7:2 It was quite a long time – some twenty years in all – that the ark stayed at Kiriath Jearim. All the people ⁸  of Israel longed for ⁹  the Lord.

1 Samuel 6:14-15

6:14 The cart was coming to the field of Joshua, who was from Beth Shemesh. It paused there near a big stone. Then they cut up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord. 6:15 The Levites took down the ark of the Lord and the chest that was with it, which contained the gold objects. They placed them near the big stone. At that time the people of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the Lord.

[8:15]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text reads, “by his hand.”

[8:15]  ² tn The Hebrew text reads, “by his mouth.”

[8:2]  ³ sn The festival. This was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.

[8:2]  ⁴ sn The month Ethanim. This would be September-October in modern reckoning.

[7:12]  ⁵ tn Cf. NAB, NRSV, NLT “Jeshanah.”

[7:12]  ⁶ sn The name Ebenezer (אֶבֶן הָעָזֶר) means “stone of help” in Hebrew (cf. TEV); NLT adds the meaning parenthetically after the name.

[7:16]  ⁷ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[7:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “house” (also in the following verse).

[7:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “mourned after”; NIV “mourned and sought after”; KJV, NRSV “lamented after”; NAB “turned to”; NCV “began to follow…again.”