Saturday, October 24, 2009

Ebenezer.

Here I raise my Ebenezer, hither by thy help I come.
And I hope by thy good pleasure, safely to arrive at home.


What the heck is an Ebenezer?


"Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, "Thus far has the LORD helped us." So the Philistines were subdued and did not invade Israelite territory again." { 1 Samuel 7:12-13


The word Ebenezer is apparently two Hebrew words pronounced together: Even Haazer. The Hebrew word for "help" is Ezer and the word for "stone" is Even. Removing the 'ha' creates "Ebenezer," literally meaning a "Stone of Help."

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