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Mizpah Scripture - Jeremiah 41:14

So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah....

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Michmash in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

mik'-mash (mikhmash; Machmas): A town in the territory of Benjamin, apparently not of sufficient importance to secure mention in the list of cities given in Josh 18:21 ff. It first appears as occupied by Saul with 2,000 men, when Jonathan, advancing from Gibeah, smote the Philistine garrison in Geba (1 Sam 13:2). To avenge this injury, the Ph...

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Michmash Scripture - 1 Samuel 13:16

And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people [that were] present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash....

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Miletus in Smiths Bible Dictionary

Ac 20:15,17 less correctly called MILETUM in 2Ti 4:20 It lay on the coast, 36 miles to the south of Ephesus, a day's sail from Trogyllium. Ac 20:15 Moreover, to those who are sailing from the north it is in the direct line for Cos. The site of Miletus has now receded ten miles from the coast, and even in the apostles' time it must have lost it...

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Millo Scripture - 1 Kings 11:27

And this [was] the cause that he lifted up [his] hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, [and] repaired the breaches of the city of David his father....

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Mizpah Scripture - Hosea 5:1

Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment [is] toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor....

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Mizpah Scripture - Jeremiah 40:6

Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land....

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Michmash in Naves Topical Bible

A city of the tribe of Benjamin 1Sa 13:5 -People of the captivity return to, and dwell in Ezr 2:27; Ne 11:31 -Prophesy concerning the king of Assyria storing his baggage at Isa 10:28 -Is garrisoned by Saul 1Sa 13:2 -Philistines killed at, by Jonathan 1Sa 14:31...

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Millo in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Heb. always with the article, "the" Millo). (1.) Probably the Canaanite name of some fortification, consisting of walls filled in with earth and stones, which protected Jerusalem on the north as its outermost defence. It is always rendered Akra i.e., "the citadel", in the LXX. It was already existing when David conquered Jerusalem (2 Sam...

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Mizpah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Hebrew "the Mizpah," generally a "watchtower". Mizpeh (masculine) expresses rather the town; Mizpah (feminine) the district (Joshua 11:8; Joshua 11:8). 1. In Gilead E. of Jordan. The name Laban gave to Galeed, the "heap of witness," the memorial of his covenant with Jacob, and the boundary landmark between them (Genesis 31:48-49; Genesis 31:...

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