1 Samuel 7:9

7:9 So Samuel took a nursing lamb ¹  and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. Samuel cried out to the Lord on Israel’s behalf, and the Lord answered him.

1 Samuel 7:17

7:17 Then he would return to Ramah, because his home was there. He also judged ²  Israel there and built an altar to the Lord there.

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¹ tn Heb “a lamb of milk”; NAB “an unweaned lamb”; NIV “a suckling lamb”; NCV “a baby lamb.”

² tn Or perhaps “settled disputes for” (cf. NLT “would hear cases there”; NRSV “administered justice there”).