1 Samuel 7:12

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.”

1 Samuel 20:19

20:19 On the third day 3  you should go down quickly 4  and come to the place where you hid yourself the day this all started. 5  Stay near the stone Ezel.

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 tc Heb “you will do [something] a third time.” The translation assumes an emendation of the verb from שִׁלַּשְׁתָּ (shillashta, “to do a third time”) to שִׁלִּישִׁית (shillishit, “[on the] third [day]”).

4 tn Heb “you must go down greatly.” See Judg 19:11 for the same idiom.

5 tn Heb “on the day of the deed.” This probably refers to the incident recorded in 19:2.