1 Samuel 7:9-17

⁹Then Samuel took a suckling lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the LORD. He cried out to the LORD on behalf of Israel, and the LORD answered him.

¹⁰As the Philistines drew near to fight against Israel, Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering. But that day the LORD thundered loudly against the Philistines and threw them into such confusion that they fled before Israel.

¹¹Then the men of Israel charged out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, striking them down all the way to an area below Beth-car.

¹²Afterward, Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.”

¹³So the Philistines were subdued, and they stopped invading the territory of Israel. And the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

¹⁴The cities from Ekron to Gath, which the Philistines had taken, were restored to Israel, who also delivered the surrounding territory from the hand of the Philistines. And there was peace between the Israelites and the Amorites.

¹⁵So Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.

¹⁶Every year he would go on a circuit from Bethel to Gilgal to Mizpah, judging Israel in all these places.

¹⁷Then he would return to Ramah because his home was there, and there he judged Israel and built an altar to the LORD.

— 1 Samuel 7:9-17

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Cross References for 1 Samuel 7:9-17

• 2 Corinthians 1:10
• Joshua 4:9
• Acts 26:22
• Genesis 22:14
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• Isaiah 46:3-4
• Genesis 31:45-52
• Joshua 24:26-27
• Joshua 4:20-24

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