1 Kings — Chapter 7
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Verse 4
Gather together a] Iftaei OF KINGS. 545 Ifrae) into Mafphath , that I may pray our Lord for you. 6, And they affembied into Mafphath : and they drew water , and powred it out in the fight of our Lord, and they tafted that day, and {ayd there: We haue finned to our Lord. And Samuel iudged the children of Ifrael in Mafphach. 7, And the Philifthiims heard that the children of Ifrael. were gathered together into Mafphach , and the Princes of the Phili. Samuel. chey were afrayd at the tace of che Philifthiims. 8, And they faid to Sa- muel ; ceafe nottocrie to our Lord God tor vs,that he faue vs trom the hand of the Philifthiims. 9. And Samuel cooke one fuckiag lambe, and offered it a whole holocautte to our Lord : and Samuel cried to our Lord for Ifrael, & our Lord heard him, 10, And itcame to pafle, whé Samuel offered the holocauft, the Philifthiims began battel againtft Ifrael: but our Lord thundred with a great noice in that day vpon the Philifthiims, & terrified thé, & they were {laine before the face of Ifrael. tr. And the men of Ifrael iffuing out of Mafphath purfued the Philif- thiims, & ftrucke them vnto the place,that was vnder Bethchar.12.And Samuel cooke one ftone, and layd it between Maiphata and Sen: and he called the name of that place, The ftone of helpe, And he fayd: Thus farre hath our Lord holpen vs.13.And the Phililliims were hum- bled, neither added they any more to come into the border of Irael, Therefore the hand of our Lord was made vpon the Philiftiims , al the dayes of Samuel.14. And the cities, which the Phiiiltiims uad taken from Ifrael,were rendred to Ifrael, trom Accaron ynto Geth,and their borders : and he deliuered Ifrael trom the hand of the Philtititins , and there was peace between Ifrael and the(t) Amorrheite, 15. Samucialfo iudged Ifracl al the daies of his lite: 16. and he went euerie yeare cic- cuiting Bethel and Galgala and Mafphath,and iudged Ifrael in the rore- {aid places.17.And he returned into Ramatha: for there was his houte, and there he iudged Ifrael : he built alfo there an altar to our Lord,