1 Samuel 7:10

The Message

While Samuel was offering the sacrifice, the Philistines came within range to fight Israel. Just then God thundered, a huge thunderclap exploding among the Philistines. They panicked—mass confusion!—and scattered before Israel. Israel poured out of Mizpah and gave chase, killing Philistines right and left, to a point just beyond Beth Car. Samuel took a single rock and set it upright between Mizpah and Shen. He named it “Ebenezer” (Rock of Help), saying, “This marks the place where God helped us.”

Cross References

Psalm 29:3

God thunders across the waters, Brilliant, his voice and his face, streaming brightness— God, across the flood waters.

Psalm 29:4

God’s thunder tympanic, God’s thunder symphonic.

Deuteronomy 28:7

God will defeat your enemies who attack you. They’ll come at you on one road and run away on seven roads.

Judges 4:15

God routed Sisera—all those chariots, all those troops!—before Barak. Sisera jumped out of his chariot and ran. Barak chased the chariots and troops all the way to Harosheth Haggoyim. Sisera’s entire fighting force was killed—not one man left.