16And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.
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And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. …
And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-17)We have here a short account of the further good services that Samuel did to Israel. Having parted them from their idols, and brought them home to their God, he had put them into a capacity of receiving further benefits by his ministry. Having prevailed in that, he becomes, in other instances, a great blessing to them; yet, writing it himself, he is brief in the relation. We are not told here, but…
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