1 Samuel 7:16

and he hath gone from year to year, and gone round Beth-El, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel [in] all these places;

Young's Literal Translation

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 judgeth Israel all the days of his life,

17and his returning [is] to Ramath, for there [is] his house, and there he hath judged Israel, and he buildeth there an altar to Jehovah.

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Cross References

Genesis 28:19and he calleth the name of that place Bethel, [house of God,] and yet, Luz [is] the name of the city at the first.

Joshua 18:26and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,

Judges 10:4and he hath thirty sons riding on thirty ass-colts, and they have thirty cities, (they call them Havoth-Jair unto this day), which [are] in the land of Gilead;

1 Samuel 10:17And Samuel calleth the people unto Jehovah to Mizpeh,

Psalms 82:3Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.

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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