1 Samuel 7:16

He went from year to year in a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.

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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

15Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.

17His return was to Ramah, for his house was there, and he judged Israel there; and he built an altar to the LORD there.

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Cross References

Genesis 28:19He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

Joshua 18:26Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,

Judges 10:4He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts. They had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

1 Samuel 10:17Samuel called the people together to the LORD to Mizpah;

Psalms 82:3“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor 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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