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11 The Israelite soldiers came out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines. They struck them down until they reached a place just below Beth-car. 12 Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Jeshanah.[a] He named it Ebenezer,[b] explaining, “The Lord helped us to this very point.”

13 So the Philistines were defeated, and they stopped coming into Israelite territory. The Lord’s hand was against the Philistines throughout Samuel’s life.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 7:12 LXX, Syr; MT Ha-shen (the tooth)
  2. 1 Samuel 7:12 Meaning stone of help

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