Eben-ezer

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Eben-ezer
     stone of help, the memorial stone set up by Samuel to
     commemorate the divine assistance to Israel in their great
     battle against the Philistines, whom they totally routed (1 Sam.
     7:7-12) at Aphek, in the neighbourhood of Mizpeh, in Benjamin,
     near the western entrance of the pass of Beth-horon. On this


     very battle-field, twenty years before, the Philistines routed
     the Israelites, "and slew of the army in the field about four
     thousand men" (4:1,2; here, and at 5:1, called "Eben-ezer" by
     anticipation). In this extremity the Israelites fetched the ark
     out of Shiloh and carried it into their camp. The Philistines a
     second time immediately attacked them, and smote them with a
     very great slaughter, "for there fell of Israel thirty thousand
     footmen. And the ark of God was taken" (1 Sam. 4:10). And now in
     the same place the Philistines are vanquished, and the memorial
     stone is erected by Samuel (q.v.). The spot where the stone was
     erected was somewhere "between Mizpeh and Shen." Some have
     identified it with the modern Beit Iksa, a conspicuous and
     prominent position, apparently answering all the necessary
     conditions; others with Dier Aban, 3 miles east of 'Ain Shems.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Eben-ezer, the stone of help