God saw to it, that what was written in the scriptures, was written for our learning.
For long years Isreal had been cold toward God. They had taken up with the Gods of the Philistines -- the very people they were supposed to have removed. They lost a battle with the PHilistines and lost the Ark of the Covenant! Twenty years later, after a return to the Lord, God gave them a victory over the Philistines and the prophet Samuel set up a stone of remembrance before them and called the stone Ebenezer -- the stone of help.""...
