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Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
1 Samuel 7:7–12 · with Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing — Robert Robinson, 1758; tune NETTLETON, 1813. Its root: Samuel’s stone — “Hitherto hath the LORD helped us” (1 Samuel 7:12), the Ebenezer the second verse raises.
Robinson’s hymn over the tight scroll of the stone-raising itself: Israel gathered at Mizpeh, the Philistines routed by thunder, and Samuel setting his stone between Mizpeh and Shen. Sung by one voice, unaccompanied.
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And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.
And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.
And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for Israel; and the LORD heard him.
And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel.
And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Beth-car.
Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.
Music: “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” sung by Anna Roberts, from the LibriVox Army and Navy Hymnal, via Wikimedia Commons — public domain. The hymn is Robert Robinson’s (1758), public domain.
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