7:12 Samuel took a stone and placed it between Mizpah and Shen. 1 He named it Ebenezer, 2 saying, “Up to here the Lord has helped us.”
12:6 Samuel said to the people, “The Lord is the one who chose Moses and Aaron and who brought your ancestors 3 up from the land of Egypt.
1 tn Cf. NAB, NRSV, NLT “Jeshanah.”
2 sn The name Ebenezer (אֶבֶן הָעָזֶר) means “stone of help” in Hebrew (cf. TEV); NLT adds the meaning parenthetically after the name.
3 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 7, 8).