1 Samuel 7:17
And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel: and he built there 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 he built there an altar unto the Lord, who had 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 6:24And Gid'on built there an altar unto the Lord, and called it Adonay-shalom [[the Eternal of Peace:]] unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abi'ezrites.
1 Samuel 1:1And there was a certain man of Rama-thayim-zophim, of the mountain of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah, the son of Yerocham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tochu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite.
1 Samuel 8:4Then did all the elders of Israel assemble 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 →