1 Samuel 7:12-14

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Peace Comes to Israel

¹² After this happened Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen.^[a] He named the stone Ebenezer [^C“Stone of help”], saying, “The Lord has helped us ·to this point [this far].” ¹³ So the Philistines were ·defeated [subdued; humbled] and did not enter the Israelites’ ·land [borders] again.

The [^Lhand of the] Lord was against the Philistines all Samuel’s life. ¹⁴ Earlier the Philistines had taken towns from the Israelites, but ·the Israelites won them back [they were restored to Israel], from Ekron [5:10] to Gath [5:8]. They also took back from the [^Lhand of the] Philistines the ·lands [territory] near these towns. There was peace also between Israel and the Amorites.