1Samuel:7:9-17

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* 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 Yisra #el #; and the LORD heard him . * And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering , the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel Yisra #el #: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines , and discomfited them ; and they were smitten before Israel Yisra #el #. * And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh , and pursued the Philistines , and smote them , until they came under Bethcar Beyth . * Then Samuel took a stone , and set it between Mizpeh and Shen , and called the name of it Ebenezer #Eben ha -#ezer #, saying , Hitherto hath the LORD helped us . * So the Philistines were subdued , and they came no more into the coast of Israel Yisra #el #: and the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel Sh @muw #el #. * And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel Yisra #el #, from Ekron even unto Gath ; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines . And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites . * And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life . * And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel Beyth -#El #, and Gilgal , and Mizpeh , and judged Israel in all those places . * And his return was to Ramah ; for there was his house ; and there he judged Israel Yisra #el #; and there he built an altar unto the LORD .

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