1Sa 7:12 | NETfull | STEP | Samuel took a stone and placed it between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Up to here the Lord has helped us.”

1 Samuel 7:12

12 Samuel took a stone and placed it between Mizpah and Shen. ^{▼▼ Cf. NAB, NRSV, NLT “Jeshanah.”} He named it Ebenezer, ^{▼▼ The name Ebenezer (אֶבֶן הָעָזֶר) means “stone of help” in Hebrew (cf. TEV); NLT adds the meaning parenthetically after the name.} saying, “Up to here the Lord has helped us.”