Now Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak tree. So the name of it was called Allon Bachuth.

and went out from Bethel to Luz, passed along to the border of the Archites at Ataroth,

Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the mountains of 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 they arose early in the morning and bowed down before Jehovah, and returned and came to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and Jehovah remembered her.

And when the five rulers of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.

And these are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned as a trespass offering unto Jehovah: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron;

And Samuel died; and all Israel gathered together and mourned for him, and buried him at his home at Ramah. And David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

Thus says Jehovah: A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are not.

And so it was, on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people; and the people stood before Moses from morning until evening.

When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor; and I make known the statutes of God and His Laws.

Listen now to my voice; I will give you counsel, and God be with you: Be before God for the people, so that you may bring the matters to God.

And they judged the people at all times; the hard matters they brought to Moses, but they judged every small matter themselves.

If a matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between blood and blood, between dispute and dispute, or between stroke and stroke, matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which Jehovah your God chooses.

You shall do according to the mouth of the word which they declare to you in that place which Jehovah chooses. And you shall take heed to do according to all that they instruct you.

And the man who acts presumptuously to not heed the priest who is standing to serve there before Jehovah your God, or the judge, that man shall die. Thus you shall put away the evil from Israel.

And Absalom would rise early and stand beside the way to the gate. And so it was, whenever anyone who had a dispute came to the king for judgment, that Absalom would call to him and say, What city are you from? And he would say, Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel.

Moreover Absalom would say, Oh, that I were made judge in the land, and everyone who has a dispute or case could come to me, and I would give him justice.

In this manner Absalom acted toward all Israel who came to the king for judgment. Thus Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.