1 Samuel 7:17

Webster's Bible (1833)

His return was to Ramah, for there was his house; and there he judged Israel: and he built there an altar to Yahweh.

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  • 1 Sam 1:19 : 19 They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.
  • 1 Sam 8:4 : 4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to Ramah;
  • 1 Sam 1:1 : 1 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, 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 Ephraimite:
  • 1 Sam 11:15 : 15 All the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before Yahweh in Gilgal; and there they offered sacrifices of peace-offerings before Yahweh; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
  • 1 Sam 19:18-23 : 18 Now David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth. 19 It was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah. 20 Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came on the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. 21 When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied. 22 Then went he also to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? One said, Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah. 23 He went there to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God came on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
  • 1 Kgs 18:30-36 : 30 Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me; and all the people came near to him. He repaired the altar of Yahweh that was thrown down. 31 Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of Yahweh came, saying, Israel shall be your name. 32 With the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed. 33 He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood. He said, Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood. 34 He said, Do it the second time; and they did it the second time. He said, Do it the third time; and they did it the third time. 35 The water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water. 36 It happened at the time of the offering of the [evening] offering, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of 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 Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said, "I will give this land to your seed{or, offspring}." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him. 8 He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh, and called on the name of Yahweh.
  • Gen 33:20 : 20 He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.{El Elohe Israel means "God, the God of Israel" or "The God of Israel is mighty."}
  • Gen 35:7 : 7 He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
  • Judg 21:4-5 : 4 It happened on the next day that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings. 5 The children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn't come up in the assembly to Yahweh? For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn't come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

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  • 1 Sam 7:15-16
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    15Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.

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

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

  • Gen 33:20
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    20He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.{El Elohe Israel means "God, the God of Israel" or "The God of Israel is mighty."}

  • 2 Chr 33:16
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    16He built up the altar of Yahweh, and offered thereon sacrifices of peace-offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.

  • Judg 19:13
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    13He said to his servant, Come and let us draw near to one of these places; and we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah.

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

  • Gen 12:8
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    8He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh, and called on the name of Yahweh.

  • Judg 4:5
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    5She lived 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 that I brought up Israel, to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from [one] tent [to another].

    6In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, spoke I a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar?

  • Judg 17:7-8
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    69%

    7There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.

    8The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to sojourn where he could find [a place], and he came to the hill-country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he traveled.

  • 2 Sam 7:11
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    11and [as] from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house.

  • 2 Chr 34:7
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    7He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the engraved images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

  • Judg 6:24
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    24Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it Yahweh-shalom: to this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

  • 1 Chr 22:1
    68%

    1Then David said, This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is the altar of burnt-offering for Israel.

  • Judg 8:29
    68%

    29Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house.

  • 2 Chr 19:4-6
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    4Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem: and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill-country of Ephraim, and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

    5He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,

    6and said to the judges, Consider what you do: for you don't judge for man, but for Yahweh; and [he is] with you in the judgment.

  • 1 Sam 2:11
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    11Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child did minister to Yahweh before Eli the priest.

  • 2 Chr 33:4-5
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    4He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.

    5He built altars for all the host of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.

  • Gen 35:7
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    7He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed 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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    4He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

    5He built altars for all the host of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.

  • Judg 21:4
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    4It happened 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
    68%

    5Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray for you to Yahweh.

  • 1 Chr 21:29
    68%

    29For the tent of Yahweh, 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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    67%

    8After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

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

  • 2 Sam 7:6-7
    2 verses
    67%

    6for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tent.

    7In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, spoke I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar?

  • Judg 15:20
    67%

    20He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

  • Josh 19:50
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    50according to the commandment of Yahweh they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in the hill-country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and lived therein.

  • 2 Chr 19:8
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    8Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites and the priests, and of the heads of the fathers' [houses] of Israel, for the judgment of Yahweh, and for controversies. They returned to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 21:26
    67%

    26David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.

  • 1 Chr 17:10
    67%

    10and [as] from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house.

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

  • 1 Sam 10:17
    67%

    17Samuel called the people together to Yahweh to Mizpah;

  • 1 Sam 30:27
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    27To those who were in Bethel, and to those who were in Ramoth of the South, and to those who were in Jattir,

  • Num 23:14
    67%

    14He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

  • Acts 7:47
    67%

    47But Solomon built him a house.

  • 1 Sam 14:35
    67%

    35Saul built an altar to Yahweh: the same was the first altar that he built to Yahweh.

  • 2 Chr 1:4
    67%

    4But David had brought the ark of God up from Kiriath Jearim to [the place] that David had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.

  • Judg 16:31
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    31Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burying-place of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.