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Chapter 7

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And Samuel spake unto all the house of
Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the

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Lord with all your hearts, then put away
the strange gods in Ashtaroth from among

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you, and prepare your hearts unto the
Lord, and serve him only, and he will

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deliver you out of the hand of the
Philistines.

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Then the children of Israel did put away
Balaam and Ashtaroth, and served the Lord

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only.

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And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to
Mizpah, and I will pray for you unto the

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Lord.

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And they gathered together to Mizpah,
and drew water, and poured it out before

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the Lord, and fasted on that day,
and said there, We have sinned against the

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Lord.

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And Samuel judged the children of Israel
in Mizpah.

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And when the Philistines heard that the
children of Israel were gathered together

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to Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines
went up against Israel.

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And when the children of Israel heard it,
they were afraid of the Philistines.

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And the children of Israel said to Samuel,
Cease not to cry unto the Lord our God for

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us, that he will save us out of the hand
of the Philistines.

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And Samuel took a sucking lamb,
and offered it for a burnt offering,

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holy unto the Lord.

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And Samuel cried unto the Lord for Israel,
and the Lord heard him.

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And as Samuel was offering up the burnt
offering, the Philistines drew near to

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battle against Israel.

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But the Lord thundered with a great
thunder on that day upon the Philistines,

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and discomfited them, and they were
smitten before Israel.

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And the men of Israel went out of Mizpah,
and pursued the Philistines, and smote

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them, until they came under Beth-char.

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Then Samuel took a stone, and set it
between Mizpah and Shenn, and called the

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name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath
the Lord helped us.

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So the Philistines were subdued,
and they came no more into the coast of

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Israel.

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And the hand of the Lord was against the
Philistines all the days of Samuel.

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And the cities which the Philistines had
taken from Israel were restored to Israel,

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from Ekron even unto Gath.

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And the coast thereof did Israel deliver
out of the hands of the Philistines.

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And there was peace between Israel and the
Amorites.

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And Samuel judged Israel all the days of
his life.

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And he went from year to year in circuit
to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpah,

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and judged Israel in all those places.

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And his return was to Ramah, for there was
his house, and there he judged Israel,

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and there he built an altar unto the Lord.