Passage Research
1 Samuel 7 — Sermon Preparation
Samuel gathers Israel at Mizpah for repentance; when the Philistines attack, God throws them into confusion and Israel wins a decisive victory. Below is a research summary for 1 Samuel 7, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 17
- verses
- 287 / 119
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 9
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
1 Samuel 7 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| פְּלִשְׁתִּי | Pᵉlishtîy | H6430 | 12 | Pelishtite |
| שְׁמוּאֵל | Shᵉmûwʼêl | H8050 | 10 | Shemuël |
| מִצְפָּה | Mitspâh | H4709 | 7 | Mitspah |
| שָׁפַט | shâphaṭ | H8199 | 4 | judge, sentence |
| קִרְיַת יְעָרִים | Qiryath Yᵉʻârîym | H7157 | 3 | Kirjath-Jearim, Kirjath-Arim |
| קָבַץ | qâbats | H6908 | 3 | grasp, collect |
| עָלָה | ʻâlâh | H5927 | 4 | ascend, high |
How preachers through history handled this text
9 public-domain excerpts on 1 Samuel 7, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“In this great revival of true religion, the ark was neither removed to Shiloh, nor placed with the tabernacle any where else. This disregard to the Levitical institutions showed that their typical meaning formed their chief use; and when that was overlooked, they became a lifeless service, not to be compared with repentance, faith, and the love of God and man.”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on 1 Samuel 7:13–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Gibeah 1— 1 Sam 7:1
- Kiriath-jearim— 1 Sam 7:1
- Beth-car— 1 Sam 7:11
- Mizpah 3— 1 Sam 7:11
- Ebenezer 2— 1 Sam 7:12
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