1 Samuel 7:16
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New International Version (©2011)
From year to year he went on a circuit from Bethel to Gilgal to Mizpah, judging Israel in all those places.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Each year he traveled around, setting up his court first at Bethel, then at Gilgal, and then at Mizpah. He judged the people of Israel at each of these places.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And he went on a circuit year by year to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah. And he judged Israel in all these places.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He used to go annually on circuit to Bethel and Gilgal and Mizpah, and he judged Israel in all these places.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Every year he would go on a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah and would judge Israel at all these locations.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He went on a circuit each year to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah, and he judged Israel in all those places.

NET Bible (©2006)
Year after year he used to travel the circuit of Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; he used to judge Israel in all of these places.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Every year he went around to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah in order to judge Israel in all those places.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpah, and judged Israel in all those places.

American King James Version
And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.

American Standard Version
And he went from year to year in circuit to Beth-el and Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.

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

Darby Bible Translation
And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpah, and judged Israel in all those places.

English Revised Version
And he went from year to year in circuit to Beth-el, and Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he went from year to year in circuit to Beth-el, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.

World English Bible
He went from year to year in circuit to Bethel and Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.

Young's Literal Translation
and he hath gone from year to year, and gone round Beth-El, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all these places;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:13-17 In this great revival of true religion, the ark was neither removed to Shiloh, nor placed with the tabernacle any where else. This disregard to the Levitical institutions showed that their typical meaning formed their chief use; and when that was overlooked, they became a lifeless service, not to be compared with repentance, faith, and the love of God and man.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he went from year to year in circuit,.... As judges do; or "from the year in the year" (r) from the time of the year in the year, as the Targum, from the middle of it, that is, every half year; and so Josephus says (s), that he went twice a year in circuit: and the places he went to, and where he held his courts of judicature, were

Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh; by Bethel is not meant Shiloh, as Abarbinel, for that was now destroyed; nor Kirjathjearim, where the ark was, for it would have been called by its name; but the same Bethel that was near to Ai, and not far from Shiloh, and was in the tribe of Benjamin, as all those places were. Gilgal was where the tabernacle, ark, and camp of Israel were first pitched, when they came over Jordan, and Mizpeh where the people used to be assembled on occasion, see 1 Samuel 7:5,

and judged Israel in all those places; who came from all parts hither with their causes, and for advice and counsel in all cases, at the returning periods.

(r) "ex anno in anno". (s) Antiqu. l. 6. c. 3. sect. 1.

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Samuel Judges Israel
15And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life. 16And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places. 17And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar to the LORD.

Genesis 28:19 He called that place Bethel, though the city used to be called Luz.
Genesis 35:6 Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
Joshua 5:9 Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you." So the place has been called Gilgal to this day.
Joshua 5:10 On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites celebrated the Passover.
1 Samuel 7:5 Then Samuel said, "Assemble all Israel at Mizpah, and I will intercede with the LORD for you."
1 Samuel 11:14 Then Samuel said to the people, "Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingship."
Amos 5:5 do not seek Bethel, do not go to Gilgal, do not journey to Beersheba. For Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will be reduced to nothing."