Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray for you to Yahweh.
"The Lord thundered with a mighty voice against the Philistines"  (1 Samuel 7:10).  We have no other information about the Lord's part in the tremendous victory that came to Israel here.  There is no mention of lightning here, nor hail, or rain, or any kind of a storm; and, although many commentators have seen all these things in the passage, it remains true that, "The words may be symbolic."[13]  We do not really need to know any more about "how" the Lord threw confusion and disaster into the ranks of the Philistines than what is revealed here.  Whatever it was, it was fully adequate.