1 Samuel 7:12-17 - Peace Comes To Israel

¹² And then Samuel took a stone and pitched it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name thereof the stone of help, saying, "Thus far hath the LORD helped us." ¹³ And so the Philistines were brought under, that they came no more into the coasts of Israel: for the hand of the LORD was upon the Philistines all the days of Samuel. ¹⁴ Thereto, the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel came again to Israel, even from Ekron to Gath, with the coasts of the same, which Israel plucked out of the hands of the Philistines. For there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.

¹⁵ And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life, ¹⁶ and went about year by year, to Bethel, Gilgal and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places, and came again to Ramah: ¹⁷ for there was his house, and there he judged Israel, and there he built an altar unto the LORD.