1 Samuel 7:16

And he went every year about to Bethel and to Galgal and to Masphath, and he judged Israel in the aforesaid places.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.

In Context

15And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life:

17And he returned to Ramatha, for there was his house, and there he judged Israel: he built also there an altar to the Lord.

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Cross References

Genesis 28:19And he called the name of the city Bethel, which before was called Luza.

Joshua 18:26,26And Mesphe, and Caphara, and Amosa,

Judges 10:4Having thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and were princes of thirty cities, which from his name were called Havoth Jair, that is, the towns of Jair, until this present day in the land of Galaad.

1 Samuel 10:17And Samuel called together the people to the Lord in Maspha:

Psalms 82:3Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor.

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 →

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