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1 Samuel 7:3
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1 Then the men of aKirjath Jearim came and took the ark of the Lord, and brought it into the house of bAbinadab on the hill, and cconsecrated Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the Lord.  

Samuel Judges Israel

2 So it was that the ark remained in Kirjath Jearim a long time; it was there twenty years. And all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord.
3 Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you areturn to the Lord with all your hearts, then bput away the foreign gods and the cAshtoreths from among you, and dprepare your hearts for the Lord, and eserve Him only; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”  
4 So the children of Israel put away the aBaals and the Ashtoreths, and served the Lord only.  
5 And Samuel said, a“Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and bI will pray to the Lord for you.”  
6 So they gathered together at Mizpah, adrew water, and poured it out before the Lord. And they bfasted that day, and said there, c“We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel judged the children of Israel at Mizpah.  
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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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1 Samuel 7:3-6

THE ISRAELITES, THROUGH SAMUEL'S INFLUENCE, SOLEMNLY REPENT AT MIZPEH. (I Samuel 7:3-6)

Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel—A great national reformation was effected through the influence of Samuel. Disgusted with their foreign servitude, and panting for the restoration of liberty and independence, they were open to salutary impressions; and convinced of their errors, they renounced idolatry. The re-establishment of the faith of their fathers was inaugurated at a great public meeting, held at Mizpeh in Judah, and hallowed by the observance of impressive religious solemnities. The drawing water, and pouring it out before the Lord, seems to have been a symbolical act by which, in the people's name, Samuel testified their sense of national corruption, their need of that moral purification of which water is the emblem, and their sincere desire to pour out their hearts in repentance before God.




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