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1 Samuel 7:9-13

1 Samuel 7:9

Samuel took a nursing lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord; and Samuel cried out to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord answered him.

1 Samuel 7:10

Now Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, and the Philistines advanced to battle Israel. But the Lord thundered with a great thunder on that day against the Philistines and confused them, so that they were struck down before Israel.

1 Samuel 7:11

And the men of Israel came out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, and killed them as far as below Beth-car.

1 Samuel 7:12

Then Samuel took a stone and placed it between Mizpah and Shen, and named it Ebenezer, saying, “So far the Lord has helped us.”

1 Samuel 7:13

So the Philistines were subdued, and they did not come anymore within the border of Israel. And the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.