6 So they gathered to Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before Yahweh. They fasted on that day and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh!” So Samuel judged the ⌊Israelites⌋f at Mizpah. 7 Now when the Philistines heard that the ⌊Israelites⌋g had gathered at Mizpah, the rulers of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the ⌊Israelites⌋h heard of it, ⌊they were afraid of the Philistines⌋.i 8 Then the ⌊Israelites⌋j said to Samuel, “⌊You must not cease⌋k from crying out to Yahweh our God, so that he will deliver us from the hand of the Philistines.” 9 So Samuel took a single ⌊nursing lamb⌋l and sacrificed it as a whole burnt offering to Yahweh. Then Samuel cried out to Yahweh on behalf of Israel, and Yahweh answered him. 10 ⌊While⌋m Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near for the battle against Israel. But Yahweh thundered against the Philistines with a great noise on that day and threw them into confusion so that they were defeated before Israel. 11 Then the men of Israel went out from Mizpah and pursued the Philistines and they struck them down as far as below Beth Car.

12 So Samuel took a single stone and put it between Mizpah and Shen, and he named it Ebenezer and said, “Up to here Yahweh has helped us.”