12. After this happened Samuel took a stone. He set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named the stone Ebenezer. Samuel said, “The Lord has helped us to this point.”
13. So the Philistines were defeated. They did not enter the Israelites’ land again.The Lord was against the Philistines all Samuel’s life.
14. Earlier the Philistines had taken towns from the Israelites. But the Israelites won them back, from Ekron to Gath. They also took back from the Philistines the neighboring lands of these towns. There was peace also between Israel and the Amorites.
15. Samuel continued as judge of Israel all his life.
16. Every year he went from Bethel to Gilgal to Mizpah. He judged the Israelites in all these towns.
17. But Samuel always went back to Ramah, where his home was. He also judged Israel there. And there he built an altar to the Lord.