1 Samuel 7:9–14

⁹Samuel took ^aa suckling lamb and offered it for a whole burnt offering to the Lord; and Samuel cried to the Lord for Israel and ^bthe Lord answered him.

¹⁰Now Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, and the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel. But ^athe Lord thundered with a great ¹thunder on that day against the Philistines and ^bconfused them, so that they were ²routed before Israel.

¹¹The men of Israel went out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, and struck them down as far as below Beth-car.

¹²Then Samuel ^atook a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and named it ¹Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the Lord has helped us.”

^13aSo the Philistines were subdued and ^bthey did not come anymore within the border of Israel. And the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

¹⁴The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and Israel delivered their territory from the hand of the Philistines. So there was peace between Israel and ^athe Amorites.