Mizpah

Mizpah Scripture - Jeremiah 41:1

Now it came to pass in the seventh month, [that] Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah....

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Mizpah Scripture - Jeremiah 41:10

Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that [were] in Mizpah, [even] the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonit...

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Mizpah Scripture - Genesis 31:49

And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another....

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Mizpah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

miz'-pa, miz'-pe: This name is pointed both ways in the Hebrew, and is found usually with the article. The meaning seems to be "outlook" or "watchtower." It is natural, therefore, to look for the places so named in high positions commanding wide prospects. (1) (ha-mitspah (Gen 31:49; Jdg 11:11,34), mitspah (Hos 5:1), mitspeh ghil`adh (Jdg 11:2...

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Mizpah in Naves Topical Bible

1. A city allotted to the tribe of Benjamin Jos 18:26 The Israelites assemble at Jud 20:1-3 And decree the penalty to be visited upon the Benjamites for their maltreatment of the Levite's concubine Jud 20:10 Assembled by Samuel so that he could reprove them for their idolatry 1Sa 7:5 They crown Saul king of Israel at 1Sa 10:17-25 A ju...

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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 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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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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Mizpah Scripture - 2 Kings 25:23

And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men....

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