1 Samuel 7:16
Year after year he used to travel the circuit of Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; he used to judge Israel in all of these places.
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- Judg 5:10 : 10 You who ride on light-colored female donkeys, who sit on saddle blankets, you who walk on the road, pay attention!
- Judg 10:4 : 4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys and possessed thirty cities. To this day these towns are called Havvoth Jair– they are in the land of Gilead.
- Judg 12:14 : 14 He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys. He led Israel for eight years.
- Ps 75:2 : 2 God says,“At the appointed times, I judge fairly.
- Ps 82:3-4 : 3 Defend the cause of the poor and the fatherless! Vindicate the oppressed and suffering! 4 Rescue the poor and needy! Deliver them from the power of the wicked!
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17Then he would return to Ramah, because his home was there. He also judged Israel there and built an altar to the LORD there.
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15So Samuel led Israel all the days of his life.
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5Then Samuel said,“Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the LORD on your behalf.”
6After they had assembled at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. They fasted on that day, and they confessed there,“We have sinned against the LORD.”So Samuel led the people of Israel at Mizpah.
7When the Philistines heard that the Israelites had gathered at Mizpah, the leaders of the Philistines went up against Israel. When the Israelites heard about this, they were afraid of the Philistines.
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3But his sons did not follow his ways. Instead, they made money dishonestly, accepted bribes, and perverted justice.
4So all the elders of Israel gathered together and approached Samuel at Ramah.
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1Israel Seeks a King In his old age Samuel appointed his sons as judges over Israel.
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17Then Samuel called the people together before the LORD at Mizpah.
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20Samson led Israel for twenty years during the days of Philistine prominence.
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5He appointed judges throughout the land and in each of the fortified cities of Judah.
6He told the judges,“Be careful what you do, for you are not judging for men, but for the LORD, who will be with you when you make judicial decisions.
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7Jephthah led Israel for six years; then he died and was buried in his city in Gilead.
8Order Restored After him Ibzan of Bethlehem led Israel.
9He had thirty sons. He arranged for thirty of his daughters to be married outside his extended family, and he arranged for thirty young women to be brought from outside as wives for his sons. Ibzan led Israel for seven years;
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20All this took about four hundred fifty years. After this he gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.
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15Then Samuel set out and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin. Saul mustered the army that remained with him; there were about six hundred men.
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31His brothers and all his family went down and brought him back. They buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led Israel for twenty years.
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12Then Samuel got up early to meet Saul the next morning. But Samuel was informed,“Saul has gone to Carmel where he is setting up a monument for himself.” Then Samuel left and went down to Gilgal.
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34Then Samuel went to Ramah, while Saul went up to his home in Gibeah of Saul.
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11Then the men of Israel left Mizpah and chased the Philistines, striking them down all the way to an area below Beth Car.
12Samuel took a stone and placed it between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying,“Up to here the LORD has helped us.”
13So the Philistines were defeated; they did not invade Israel again. The hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
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5She would sit under the Date Palm Tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites would come up to her to have their disputes settled.
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20All Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba realized that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the LORD.
21Then the LORD again appeared in Shiloh, for it was in Shiloh that the LORD had revealed himself to Samuel through a message from the LORD.
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7Some of the Hebrews crossed over the Jordan River to the land of Gad and Gilead. But Saul stayed at Gilgal; the entire army that was with him was terrified.
8He waited for seven days, the time period indicated by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the army began to abandon Saul.
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4Samuel did what the LORD told him. When he arrived in Bethlehem, the elders of the city were afraid to meet him. They said,“Do you come in peace?”
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14Samuel said to the people,“Come on! Let’s go to Gilgal and renew the kingship there.”
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15So the king returned and came to the Jordan River. Now the people of Judah had come to Gilgal to meet the king and to help him cross the Jordan.
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8You will go down to Gilgal before me. I am going to join you there to offer burnt offerings and to make peace offerings. You should wait for seven days, until I arrive and tell you what to do.”
9Saul Becomes King As Saul turned to leave Samuel, God changed his inmost person. All these signs happened on that very day.
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21Then the man Elkanah and all his family went up to make the yearly sacrifice to the LORD and to keep his vow.
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16When they have a dispute, it comes to me and I decide between a man and his neighbor, and I make known the decrees of God and his laws.”
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3Samuel said to all the people of Israel,“If you are really turning to the LORD with all your hearts, remove from among you the foreign gods and the images of Ashtoreth. Give your hearts to the LORD and serve only him. Then he will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”
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16I furthermore admonished your judges at that time that they should pay attention to issues among your fellow citizens and judge fairly, whether between one person and a native Israelite or a resident foreigner.
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1Samuel said to all Israel,“I have done everything you requested. I have given you a king.
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9You will go to the Levitical priests and the judge in office in those days and seek a solution; they will render a verdict.
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4So Saul crossed through the hill country of Ephraim, passing through the land of Shalisha, but they did not find them. So they crossed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then he crossed through the land of Benjamin, and still they did not find them.
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7Micah Hires a Professional There was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah. He was a Levite who had been temporarily residing among the tribe of Judah.
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3Jair the Gileadite rose up after him; he led Israel for twenty-two years.
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13He said to his servant,“Come on, we will go into one of the other towns and spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.”
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21So Samuel listened to everything the people said and then reported it to the LORD.
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11So the LORD sent Jerub-Baal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and he delivered you from the hand of the enemies all around you, and you were able to live securely.
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19However, there is an annual festival to the LORD in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel(east of the main road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem) and south of Lebonah.”
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6In the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them,
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11So Jephthah went with the leaders of Gilead. The people made him their leader and commander. Jephthah repeated the terms of the agreement before the LORD in Mizpah.
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18Provision for Justice You must appoint judges and civil servants for each tribe in all your villages that the LORD your God is giving you, and they must judge the people fairly.
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3This man would go up from his city year after year to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of Heaven’s Armies at Shiloh.(It was there that the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, served as the LORD’s priests.)