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1 Samuel 7:11

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The men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and pursued the Philistines, and struck them, until they came under Beth Kar.

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8The children of Israel said to Samuel, “Don’t stop crying to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.”
9Samuel took a suckling lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt offering to Yahweh. Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel; and Yahweh answered him.
10As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines) came near to battle against Israel); but Yahweh thundered with a great thunder on that day on the Philistines, and confused them; and they were struck down before Israel.
11The men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and pursued the Philistines, and struck them, until they came under Beth Kar.
12Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, “Yahweh helped us until now.”
13So the Philistines) were subdued, and they stopped coming within the border of Israel. Yahweh’s hand was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
14The cities which the Philistines) had taken from Israel))) were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and Israel recovered its border out of the hand of the Philistines. There was peace between Israel and the Amorites.

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