Judges 20:1

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So all the people of Israel joined together. They all came together to stand before the Lord in the city of Mizpah. People came from everywhere in Israel. [166] Even the Israelite people from Gilead [167] were there.

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:14

David touched the hearts of all the people of Judah, so that they agreed like one man. The people of Judah sent {a message} to the king. They said, “You and all your officers come back!”

2 Samuel 2:9

and made him king of Gilead, Asher, Jezreel, Ephraim, Benjamin, and all of Israel. [11]

2 Samuel 24:2

King David said to Joab, the captain of the army, “Go through all the family groups of Israel from Dan to Beersheba, [158] and count the people. Then I will know how many people there are.”

1 Kings 5:5

“The Lord made a promise to my father David. The Lord said, ‘I will make your son king after you. And your son will build a temple to honor me.’ Now, I plan to build that temple to honor the Lord my God.

2 Kings 25:23

The army captains were Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth from Netophah, and Jaazaniah son of the Maachathite. These army captains and their men heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor. So they went to Mizpah to meet with Gedaliah.

1 Chronicles 21:2

So David said to Joab and the leaders of the people, “Go and count all the people of Israel. Count everyone in the country—from the town of Beersheba all the way to the town of Dan. Then tell me, so I will know how many people there are.”

2 Chronicles 30:5

So they made an announcement everywhere in Israel, from the town of Beersheba all the way to the town of Dan. They told the people to come to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover for the Lord God of Israel. A large group of the people of Israel had not celebrated the Passover since a long time ago the way the law of Moses said to celebrate it.

Ezra 3:1

So, by the seventh month, {\cf2\super [10]} the people of Israel had moved back to their own home towns. At that time, all the people met together in Jerusalem. They were all united as one people.

Nehemiah 11:27

in Hazar Shual, in Beersheba and the small towns around it,

Nehemiah 8:1

So all the people of Israel met together in the seventh month {\cf2\super [42]} of the year. They were together and in agreement just as if they were one man. They all met together in the open place in front of the Water Gate. All those people asked Ezra the teacher to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses. That is the Law that the Lord had given to the people of Israel.

Jeremiah 40:6

So Jeremiah went to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah. Jeremiah stayed with Gedaliah among the people that were left behind in the land of Judah.

Numbers 32:1

The family groups of Reuben and Gad had many, many cows. Those people looked at the land near Jazer and Gilead. They saw that this land was good for their cows.

Numbers 32:40

So Moses gave Gilead to Makir from Manasseh’s family group. So his family settled there.

Joshua 15:38

Dilean, Mizpah, Joktheel,

Joshua 17:1

Then land was given to the family group of Manasseh. Manasseh was Joseph’s first son. Manasseh’s first son was Makir, the father of Gilead. [61] Makir was a great soldier, so the areas of Gilead and Bashan were given to the Makir family.

Joshua 18:26

Mizpah, Kephirah, Mozah,

Joshua 22:12

All the people of Israel became very angry at these three family groups. They met together and decided to fight against them.

Joshua 22:9

So the people from the family groups of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh left the other people of Israel. They were at Shiloh in Canaan. They left that place and went back to Gilead. They went home to their own land—the land that Moses gave them. The Lord had commanded Moses to give them this land.

Joshua 4:13

About 40,000 soldiers, prepared for war, passed before the Lord. They were marching toward the plains of Jericho.

Judges 11:11

So Jephthah went with the elders (leaders) from Gilead. Those people made Jephthah their leader and their commander. Jephthah repeated all of his words in front of the Lord at the city of Mizpah.

Judges 11:34

Jephthah went back to Mizpah. Jephthah went to his house and his daughter came out of the house to meet him. She was playing a tambourine and dancing. She was his only daughter. Jephthah loved her very much. Jephthah did not have any other sons or daughters.

Judges 18:29

The people of Dan gave that city a new name. That city had been called Laish, but they changed the name to Dan. They named the city after their ancestor [139] Dan, one of the sons of Israel.

Judges 20:11

So all the men of Israel gathered together at the city of Gibeah. They were all agreed to what they were doing.

Judges 20:18

The people of Israel went up to the city of Bethel. At Bethel they asked God, “Which family group will be first to attack the family group of Benjamin?”

Judges 20:2

The leaders of all the family groups of Israel were there. They took their places in the public meeting of God’s people. There were 400,000 soldiers with swords in that place.

Judges 20:26

Then all the people of Israel went up to the city of Bethel. At that place they sat down and cried to the Lord. They did not eat anything all day, until evening. They also offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the Lord.

Judges 20:8

Then all the people stood up at the same time. They said together, “None of us will go home. No, not one of us will go back to his house.

Judges 21:5

Then the people of Israel said, “Are there any family groups of Israel that did not come here to meet with us before the Lord?” They asked this question because they had made a serious promise. They had promised that anyone that did not come together with the other family groups at the city of Mizpah would be killed.

1 Samuel 10:17

Samuel told all the people of Israel to meet together with the Lord at Mizpah.