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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
1 Samuel 7
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.
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 (1Sa 7). From the capture (in 1040BC ) to its entry into Zion (in 950BC) was eighty-nine years (2 Samuel 7:17).
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.
there was his house. Compare 1 Samuel 1:19, &c.
altar. Shiloh forsaken, and Ark separated from Tabernacle. There was no chosen "place".
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