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Mizpah in Smiths Bible Dictionary

and Miz'peh (a watch-tower), the name of several places in Israel. 1. The earliest of all, in order of the narrative, is the heap of stones piled up by Jacob and Laban, Ge 31:48 on Mount Gilead, ver. Ge 31:25 to serve both as a witness to the covenant then entered into and as a landmark of the boundary between them. ver. Ge 31:52 On this natu...

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Mizpah Scripture - Jeremiah 41:16

Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that [were] with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after [that] he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, [even] mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought a...

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MIzpah Scripture - Nehemiah 3:19

And next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, another piece over against the going up to the armoury at the turning [of the wall]....

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Memphis Scripture - Hosea 9:6

For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant [places] for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns [shall be] in their tabernacles....

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Michmash Scripture - 1 Samuel 13:11

And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and [that] thou camest not within the days appointed, and [that] the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;...

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Miletus in Naves Topical Bible

Also called MILETUM -A seaport in Asia Minor -Paul visits Ac 20:15 -And sends to Ephesus for the elders of the congregation, and addresses them at Ac 20:17-38 -Trophimus left sick at 2Ti 4:20...

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Millo in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(a rampart, mound) a place in ancient Jerusalem. Both name and place seem to have been already in existence when the city was taken from the Jebusites by David. 2Sa 5:9; 1Ch 11:8 Its repair or restoration was one of the great works for which Solomon raised his "levy," 1Ki 9:15,24; 11:27 and it formed a prominent part of the fortifications by w...

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Millo Scripture - Judges 9:6

And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that [was] in Shechem....

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Mizpah Scripture - Jeremiah 40:8

Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men....

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Mizpah in Easton's Bible Dictionary

or Miz'peh, watch-tower; the look-out. (1.) A place in Gilead, so named by Laban, who overtook Jacob at this spot (Gen. 31:49) on his return to Israel from Padan-aram. Here Jacob and Laban set up their memorial cairn of stones. It is the same as Ramath-mizpeh (Josh. 13:26). (2.) A town in Gilead, where Jephthah resided, and where he assu...

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