Samuel took a large stone and placed it between the towns of Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer -"the stone of help"- for he said, "Up to this point the lord has helped us!" -1 Samuel 7:12
Samuel used the stone as a marker to show how God protected the Israelites when they were being attacked by the philistines. When Robert Robinson says "Here I raise my Ebenezer; hither by thy help i've come; and I hope, by thy good pleasure, safely to arrive at home. Jesus sought me when a stranger wandering from the fold of God; here to rescue me from danger interposed his precious blood.", he is saying he was lost and away from God and that God found him and saved him in a time of trouble. He alludes to Samuel putting up a giant rock called Ebenezer to remember how God helped the israelites. The writer creates meaning by using the allusion and saying he is raising up his ebenezer, which means he is remembering how God helped him.
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