Eben-ezer

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A stone thus called, signifying “stone of help,” set up by Samuel, after obtaining victory over the Philistines, as a memorial of the help received from God (1 Sam. 4:11And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Eben-ezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek. (1 Samuel 4:1); 1 Sam. 5:11And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Eben-ezer unto Ashdod. (1 Samuel 5:1); 1 Sam. 7:1212Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us. (1 Samuel 7:12)). It would appear in the texts as if the stone had had the name prior to Samuel’s thus designating it; but this may be accounted for by the whole account having been written after the stone was so named. The word has become symbolical for the expression “Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.”