1 Samuel 7:16

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

Berean Standard Bible

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

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

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

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Cross References

Genesis 28:19and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.

Joshua 18:26Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,

Judges 10:4He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys. And they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth-jair.

1 Samuel 10:17After this, Samuel summoned the people to the LORD at Mizpah

Psalms 82:3Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.

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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