The men of Kiriath Jearim came and took the LORD’s ark, and brought it into Abinadab’s house on the hill, and consecrated Eleazar his son to keep the LORD’s ark. 2Sa 6:2-41Ch 13:5-71Sa 6:21Isa 52:11Jos 18:14Psa 132:6 From the day that the ark stayed in Kiriath Jearim, the time was long—for it was twenty years; and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD. 2Co 7:10-11Jdg 2:4Jer 3:13Jer 3:22-25Jer 31:9Mat 5:4Zec 12:10-11 Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to the LORD, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.” Luk 4:8Deu 13:4Mat 4:10Deu 6:13Isa 55:7Jos 24:14Jhn 4:24Deu 10:20 Then the children of Israel removed the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only. Hos 14:8Hos 14:31Ki 11:33Jdg 10:15-16Jdg 2:11Jdg 2:13 Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the LORD for you.” Jdg 20:11Sa 12:231Sa 10:171Sa 7:121Sa 7:162Ki 25:23Jol 2:16Jos 15:38 They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against the LORD.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah. 1Sa 1:152Sa 14:14Jdg 10:10Jer 9:1Jol 2:12Psa 106:6Psa 62:81Ki 8:47
When the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. When the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines. 1Sa 17:111Sa 13:62Ch 20:3Exo 14:10 The children of Israel said to Samuel, “Don’t stop crying to the LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.” Isa 37:41Sa 12:19-24Jas 5:16Isa 62:1Isa 62:6-7 Samuel took a suckling lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt offering to the LORD. Samuel cried to the LORD for Israel, and the LORD answered him. Jer 15:1Psa 99:61Sa 7:17Psa 50:151Sa 16:2Jas 5:161Ki 18:30-381Sa 10:8 As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines came near to battle against Israel; but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day on the Philistines and confused them; and they were struck down before Israel. 1Sa 2:101Sa 12:172Sa 22:14-15Jdg 5:20Jos 10:10Deu 20:3-4Zec 4:6Exo 9:23-25 The men of Israel went out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, and struck them until they came under Beth Kar.
Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, 1 saying, “The LORD helped us until now.” 2Co 1:10Jos 4:9Act 26:22Gen 22:14Gen 35:141Sa 5:1Isa 46:3-4Gen 31:45-52 So the Philistines were subdued, and they stopped coming within the border of Israel. The LORD’s hand was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel. Jdg 13:11Sa 17:49-531Sa 13:1-51Sa 14:20-231Sa 14:6-161Sa 28:3-51Sa 31:1-7Jdg 13:5
The 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. Psa 106:34Deu 7:16Deu 7:2Jdg 4:17
Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life. 1Sa 7:6Act 13:20-21Jdg 2:161Sa 12:11Sa 12:111Sa 25:1Jdg 3:10-11 He went from year to year in a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places. Jdg 10:4Jdg 12:14Jdg 5:10Psa 75:2Psa 82:3-4 His return was to Ramah, for his house was there, and he judged Israel there; and he built an altar to the LORD there. 1Sa 1:191Sa 1:11Sa 8:41Ki 18:30-361Sa 11:151Sa 19:18-23Gen 33:20Gen 35:7