1 Samuel 7:16
Good News Translation
Every year he would go around to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah, and in these places he would settle disputes.

New Revised Standard Version
He went on a circuit year by year to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all these places.

Contemporary English Version
Every year he would go around to the towns of Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah where he served as judge for the people.

New American Bible
He made a yearly circuit, passing through Bethel, Gilgal and Mizpah and judging Israel at each of these places.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he went every year about to Bethel and to Galgal and to Masphath, and he judged Israel in the foresaid places.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he went every year about to Bethel and to Galgal and to Masphath, and he judged Israel in the foresaid places.

1 Samuel 7:17 And he returned to Ramatha: for there was his house, and there he judged Israel: he built also there an altar to the Lord.

) that there, i.e, at Ramah, `he build an altar to the Lord.'

in circuit [heb] and he circuited

Judges 5:10 Speak, you that ride upon fair asses, and you that sit in judgment, and walk in the way.

Judges 10:4 Having thirty sons, that rode on thirty ass colts, and were princes of thirty cities, which from his name were called Havoth Jair, that is, the towns of Jair, until this present day, in the land of Galaad.

Judges 12:14 And he had forty sons, and of them thirty grandsons, mounted upon seventy ass colts, and he judged Israel eight years:

Psalm 75:2 When I shall take a time, I will judge justices.

Psalm 82:3,4 Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor. . . .

Context
Samuel Subdues the Philistines
15And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life: 16And he went every year about to Bethel and to Galgal and to Masphath, and he judged Israel in the foresaid places.17And he returned to Ramatha: for there was his house, and there he judged Israel: he built also there an altar to the Lord.…
Cross References
Genesis 28:19
And he called the name of the city Bethel, which before was called Luza.

Genesis 35:6
And Jacob came to Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, surnamed Bethel: he and all the people that were with him.

Joshua 5:9
And the Lord said to Joshua: This day have I taken away from you the reproach of Egypt. And the name of that place was called Galgal, until this present day.

Joshua 5:10
And the children of Israel abode in Galgal, and they kept the phase, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in the plains of Jericho:

1 Samuel 7:5
And Samuel said: Gather all Israel to Masphath, that I may pray to the Lord for you.

1 Samuel 11:14
And Samuel said to the people: Come, and let us go to Galgal, and let us renew the kingdom there.

Amos 5:5
But seek not Bethel, and go not into Galgal, neither shall you pass over to Bersabee: for Galgal shall go into captivity, and Bethel shall be unprofitable.

1 Samuel 7:15
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