17And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD.
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And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.
Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:
And he erected there an altar, and called it Elelohe-Israel.
And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
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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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