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1 Samuel 7
1 Samuels 1, 2,
3, 4,
5, 6,
7, 8,
9, 10,
11,12,
13, 14,
15, 16,
17, 18,
19, 20,
21, 22,
23, 24,
25, 26,
27, 28,
29, 30,
31
1 Samuel 7:1 And the men of Kirjath-jearim came, and fetched up the ark of the
Lord, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified
Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the Lord.
2 And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjath-jearim, that the time was
long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the
Lord.
3 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto
the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from
among you, and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only: and he
will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
4 Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the
Lord only.
5 And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the
Lord.
6 And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before
the Lord, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the
Lord. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.
7 And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered
together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And
when the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.
8 And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the Lord our
God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.
9 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly
unto the Lord: and Samuel cried unto the Lord for Israel; and the Lord heard
him.
10 And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near
to battle against Israel: but the Lord thundered with a great thunder on that
day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before
Israel.
11 And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and
smote them, until they came under Beth-car.
12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the
name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.
13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of
Israel: and the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of
Samuel.
14 And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to
Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out
of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the
Amorites.
15 And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
16 And he went from year to year in circuit to Beth-el, and
17 And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged
Israel; and there he built an altar unto the Lord.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book:
Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh
his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
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