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12 After that, Samuel took a stone. He fixed it in the ground between Mizpah and Shen. He called the stone Ebenezer.[a] He said, ‘The Lord has helped us all this way.’

13 That is how the Israelites won the fight against the Philistines. The Philistines did not attack Israel land again. All the time that Samuel was alive, the Lord stopped the Philistines from attacking Israel.

14 The Israelites took back the towns and the land that the Philistines had taken from them. These towns were between Ekron and Gath. Also, the Israelites and the Amorites did not fight against each other.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:12 Ebenezer means ‘stone of help’. Samuel put up this stone to give honour to God as Israel's helper.