1 Samuel 7:9–14

⁹And Samuel took a ^psuckling lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. Then ^qSamuel cried out to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord answered him. ¹⁰Now as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel. ^rBut the Lord thundered with a loud thunder upon the Philistines that day, and so confused them that they were overcome before Israel. ¹¹And the men of Israel went out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, and ³drove them back as far as below Beth Car. ¹²Then Samuel ^stook a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name ⁴Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the Lord has helped us.”

^13tSo the Philistines were subdued, and they ^udid not come anymore into the territory of Israel. And the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel. ¹⁴Then the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron to Gath; and Israel recovered its territory from the hands of the Philistines. Also there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.