1 Samuel 7:1–17 is in many ways the answer to Hannah’s prayer (see 1 Samuel 2:1–10), or at the very least a partial fulfillment of the reversal that will come with Israel’s anointed king.1 Under the leadership of Samuel, the people of Israel return to the Lord; they acknowledge and confess their sin. Subsequently, they are delivered from the Philistines.
1 And the men of Kiriath-jearim came and took up the ark of the LORD and brought it to the house of Abinadab on the hill. And they consecrated his son Eleazar to have charge of the ark of the LORD.