1 Samuel 07 The Philistines are defeated

 1 Samuel 07

The Philistines are defeated

7 When the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered in Mizpah, the Philistines' chiefs went up against Israel: what the children of Israel heard: they feared because of the Philistines.

8 And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Do not cease to cry out to the Lord our God for us, that he may deliver us from the hand of the Philistines.

9 Then Samuel took a suckling lamb, and sacrificed it whole as a burnt offering to the Lord: and Samuel cried to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord listened to him.

10 And it came to pass, when Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering, that the Philistines came to battle against Israel: and the Lord thundered that day with great thunder over the Philistines, and terrified them so that they were defeated before the children of Israel.

11 And the men of Israel left Mizpah, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them even below Beth-Car.

12 Then Samuel took a stone, and placed it between Mizpah and Shem, and called his name Ebenezer: and said, The Lord has helped us so far.

13 So the Philistines were slaughtered, and never came to Israel's terms again, because it was the Lord's hand against the Philistines every day of Samuel.

14 And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel from Ekron to Gath, and until its terms Israel snatched it out of the hands of the Philistines; and there was peace between Israel and among the Amorites.

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

16 And he went from year to year, and surrounded Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah, and judged Israel in all those places.

17 But he returned to Ramah, because his house was there, and there he judged Israel: and there he built an altar to the Lord.