¹And the men of Kiryat-Ye’arim [City of Forests] came, and fetched up the ark of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , and brought it into the house of Avinadav [my father is noble] in the hill, and sanctified El’azar [God has helped] his son to keep the ark of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) .

²And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kiryat-Ye’arim [City of Forests] , that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] lamented after the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) .

³And Sh’mu’el [His name is El] spoke unto all the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] , saying, If you2f do return unto the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) with all your hearts, [then] put away the strange gods and ‘Ashtarot [Star (female deity)] from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the P’lishtim [Immigrants] .

⁴Then the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] did put away Ba’alim [lords (false gods)] and ‘Ashtarot [Star (female deity)] , and served the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) only.

⁵And Sh’mu’el [His name is El] said, Gather all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to Mitzpah [Watchtower] , and I will pray for you unto the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) .

⁶And they gathered together to Mitzpah [Watchtower] , and drew water, and poured [it] out before the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) . And Sh’mu’el [His name is El] judged the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] in Mitzpah [Watchtower] .

⁷And when the P’lishtim [Immigrants] heard that the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] were gathered together to Mitzpah [Watchtower] , the lords of the P’lishtim [Immigrants] went up against Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] . And when the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] heard [it] , they were afraid of the P’lishtim [Immigrants] .

⁸And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] said to Sh’mu’el [His name is El] , Cease not to cry unto the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the P’lishtim [Immigrants] .

⁹And Sh’mu’el [His name is El] took a sucking lamb, and offered [it for] a burnt offering wholly unto the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) : and Sh’mu’el [His name is El] cried unto the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) for Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] ; and the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) heard him.

¹⁰And as Sh’mu’el [His name is El] was offering up the burnt offering, the P’lishtim [Immigrants] drew near to battle against Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] : but the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the P’lishtim [Immigrants] , and scattered (defeated in battle) them; and they were smitten before Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] .

¹¹And the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] went out of Mitzpah [Watchtower] , and pursued the P’lishtim [Immigrants] , and struck them, until [they came] under Beit-Kar [house of the ram] .

¹²Then Sh’mu’el [His name is El] took a stone, and set [it] between Mitzpah [Watchtower] and Shen [crag] , and called the name of it Even-’’Ezer [treasure] [stone of help] , saying, Until now has the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) helped us.

¹³So the P’lishtim [Immigrants] were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] : and the hand of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) was against the P’lishtim [Immigrants] all the days of Sh’mu’el [His name is El] .

¹⁴And the cities which the P’lishtim [Immigrants] had taken from Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] were restored to Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] , from ‘Ekron [Torn Up by the Roots] even unto Gat [Winepress] ; and the coasts thereof did Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] deliver out of the hands of the P’lishtim [Immigrants] . And there was peace between Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and the Emori [Highlanders] .

¹⁵And Sh’mu’el [His name is El] judged Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] all the days of his life.

¹⁶And he went from year to year in circuit to Beit-El [House of God] , and Gilgal [A Wheel, Rolling] , and Mitzpah [Watchtower] , and judged Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] in all those places.

¹⁷And his return [was] to Ramah [Hill] ; for there [was] his house; and there he judged Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] ; and there he built an altar unto the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) .