King James Version
1 Samuel 7:11 in the King James Version says “And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Bethcar.” — study this verse from 1 Samuel chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Bethcar.”
1 Samuel 7:11 · KJV
And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for Israel; and the LORD heard him. heard: or, answered
And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel.
And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Bethcar.
Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us. Ebenezer: that is, The stone of help
So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Israel: and the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“went out”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
“And the men”
H582properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified h0120); hence, a man in general (singly or collectively)
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“and pursued”
H7291to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively [of time] gone by)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc
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