1 Samuel 7

1 Samuel 7:1

men. Hebrew. ’enosh. App-14. the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.

Abinadab. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, add “which is”. in the hill. Or, in Gibeah.

1 Samuel 7:2

time was long. Ark remained with Philistines seven months (1 Samuel 6:1); sent from Ekron to Kirjathjearim in 1040, and remained there twenty years (1 Samuel 7). From the capture to its entry into Zion (in 950BC) was eighty-nine years (2 Samuel 7:17).

1 Samuel 7:4

children = sons.

1 Samuel 7:6

sinned. Hebrew. chata’. App-44.

1 Samuel 7:7

lords. See note on Joshua 13:3.

1 Samuel 7:8

God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4.

1 Samuel 7:9

Samuel took. Samuel was a Levite, and according to 1 Chronicles 23:27-32 could do this; though according to Numbers 18:3 he could not have acted in the holy place.

offered = offered up. See App-43.

1 Samuel 7:10

thundered with a great thunder. Figure of speech Polyptoton. App-6.

1 Samuel 7:13

coast = border, or boundary.

1 Samuel 7:17

there was his house. Compare 1 Samuel 1:19, &c.

altar. Shiloh forsaken, and Ark separated from Tabernacle. There was no chosen “place”.