| I Samuel 7:12
| And Samuel took a stone, and laid it between Masphath and Sen: and he called the place The stone of help. And he said: Thus far the Lord hath helped us.
| Sen, "the tooth," a craggy rock of that appearance. Syriac Bethjasan. (Calmet) --- Some take it to be the same with Bethchar. (Malvenda) --- It was before ignoble, (Salien) and the situation not known, till this monument was erected, with the inscription, Thus far, etc. --- Help; "Aben-ezer," mentioned before, 1 Kings 4:1. These religious monuments were not prohibited by the law, Leviticus 26:1. Samuel would take every precaution that they should not become objects of idolatry, as he was under the immediate influence of the Holy Spirit. (Calmet)
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