1 Samuel 7:17
And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD.
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Genesis 12:7And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
Genesis 35:7And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
Judges 6:24Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovah-shalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites.
1 Samuel 1:1Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:
1 Samuel 8:4Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
1 Samuel 14:35And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was the first altar that he built unto the LORD.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 7:14-17
The Defeat of the Philistines. ( b. c. 1092.) 13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Israel: and the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel. 14 And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, 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. 15 And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life. 16 And he… Read the whole commentary →