"Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, ‘Thus far the Lord has helped us.’" 1 Samuel 7:12 (NKJV) Think about it. In the very same place where Israel suffered one of their darkest days, God wrote a story of redemption. At Ebenezer, thirty-four thousand soldiers were slaughtered. On that same day, the high priest Eli fell and died. His sons were killed in battle. His daughter-in-law gave birth in sorrow, named her son Ichabod, and ...