All the days of Samuel - This refers not to all the days of his life (as in 1 Samuel 7:15), but to all the days of his “governme…

So the Philistines were subdued. —The work of Samuel had been thorough. It was no mere solitary victory, this success of Israel at Ebeneze…

So the Philistines were subdued
Not that their country was conquered, or they made subject and become tributaries to…

In this great revival of true religion, the ark was neither removed to Shiloh, nor placed with the tabernacle anywhere else. This disregard for the…