1 Samuel 7:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

And he returned to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD.

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  • 1 Sam 1:19 : 19 And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house at Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the LORD remembered her.
  • 1 Sam 8:4 : 4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered together, and came to Samuel at Ramah,
  • 1 Sam 1:1 : 1 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:
  • 1 Sam 11:15 : 15 And all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal, and there they sacrificed peace offerings before the LORD, and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
  • 1 Sam 19:18-23 : 18 So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and lived in Naioth. 19 And it was told to Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah. 20 And Saul sent messengers to take David; and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. 21 And when it was told to Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied. 22 Then he himself went to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Sechu; and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And someone said, Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah. 23 And he went there to Naioth in Ramah; and the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
  • 1 Kgs 18:30-36 : 30 And Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me. And all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down. 31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be your name: 32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench around the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed. 33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood. 34 And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time. 35 And the water ran around the altar; and he filled the trench also with water. 36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.
  • Gen 12:7-8 : 7 And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, To your descendants will I give this land: and there he built an altar to the LORD, who appeared to him. 8 And he moved from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east: and there he built an altar to the LORD, and called on the name of the LORD.
  • Gen 33:20 : 20 And he erected an altar there and called it El Elohe Israel.
  • Gen 35:7 : 7 And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
  • Judg 21:4-5 : 4 And it came to pass on the next day, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. 5 And the children of Israel said, Who among all the tribes of Israel did not come up with the congregation to the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the LORD at Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

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    15And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.

    16And he went from year to year in a circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpah, and judged Israel in all those places.

  • 1 Sam 8:4
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    4Then all the elders of Israel gathered together, and came to Samuel at Ramah,

  • Gen 33:20
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    20And he erected an altar there and called it El Elohe Israel.

  • 2 Chr 33:16
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    16And he repaired the altar of the LORD, sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

  • Judg 19:13
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    13He said to his servant, "Come, let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night in Gibeah or in Ramah."

  • 2 Sam 19:15
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    15So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to meet the king, to conduct the king over the Jordan.

  • Gen 12:8
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    8And he moved from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east: and there he built an altar to the LORD, and called on the name of the LORD.

  • Judg 4:5
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    5And she sat under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.

  • 1 Chr 17:5-6
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    5For I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up Israel to this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.

    6Wherever I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar?

  • Judg 17:7-8
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    7And there was a young man out of Bethlehem in Judah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he stayed there.

    8And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehem in Judah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.

  • 2 Sam 7:11
    69%

    11And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused you to rest from all your enemies. Also the LORD tells you that he will make you a house.

  • 2 Chr 34:7
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    7And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and beaten the graven images into powder and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

  • Judg 6:24
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    24Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovahshalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

  • 1 Chr 22:1
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    1Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.

  • Judg 8:29
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    29And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house.

  • 2 Chr 19:4-6
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    4And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem, and he went out again through the people from Beersheba to Mount Ephraim, and brought them back to the LORD God of their fathers.

    5And he appointed judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,

    6And said to the judges, Take heed what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.

  • 1 Sam 2:11
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    11And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child served the LORD before Eli the priest.

  • 2 Chr 33:4-5
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    4He also built altars in the house of the LORD, where the LORD had said, 'In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.'

    5And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

  • Gen 35:7
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    7And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

  • 1 Sam 15:34
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    34Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

  • 2 Kgs 21:4-5
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    4And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, 'In Jerusalem I will put my name.'

    5And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

  • Judg 21:4
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    4And it came to pass on the next day, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

  • 1 Sam 7:5
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    5And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray for you to the LORD.

  • 1 Chr 21:29
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    29For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.

  • Judg 12:8-9
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    8And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

    9And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and brought in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.

  • 2 Sam 7:6-7
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    6Since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, I have not dwelt in any house, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.

    7In all the places where I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar?

  • Judg 15:20
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    20He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines for twenty years.

  • Josh 19:50
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    50According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt there.

  • 2 Chr 19:8
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    8Moreover, in Jerusalem, Jehoshaphat appointed some of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 21:26
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    26And David built there an altar to the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.

  • 1 Chr 17:10
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    10And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Moreover, I will subdue all your enemies. Furthermore, I tell you that the LORD will build you a house.

  • 1 Kgs 13:32
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    32For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.

  • 1 Sam 10:17
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    17And Samuel called the people together to the LORD at Mizpah;

  • 1 Sam 30:27
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    27To them who were in Bethel, and to them who were in south Ramoth, and to them who were in Jattir,

  • Num 23:14
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    14And he brought him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

  • Acts 7:47
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    47But Solomon built Him a house.

  • 1 Sam 14:35
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    35Saul built an altar to the LORD; it was the first altar that he built to the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 1:4
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    4But the ark of God David had brought up from Kirjathjearim to the place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.

  • Judg 16:31
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    31And his brothers and all his father's house came down and took him, and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol, in the tomb of his father Manoah. He had judged Israel twenty years.