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1 Samuel 7:5

New Century Version

Samuel said, “All Israel must meet at Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord for you.”

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So all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, joined together before the Lord in the city of Mizpah.

Bring the people together and make the meeting holy for the Lord. Bring together the elders, as well as the children, and even babies that still feed at their mothers’ breasts. The bridegroom should come from his room, the bride from her bedroom.

On the twenty-fourth day of that same month, the people of Israel gathered. They fasted, and they wore rough cloth and put dust on their heads to show their sadness.

The army captains and their men heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, so they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah. They were Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, Jaazaniah son of the Maacathite, and their men.

I will surely not stop praying for you, because that would be sinning against the Lord. I will teach you what is good and right.

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

Every year he went from Bethel to Gilgal to Mizpah and judged the Israelites in all these towns.

After this happened Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named the stone Ebenezer, saying, “The Lord has helped us to this point.”

Give Abraham his wife back. He is a prophet. He will pray for you, and you will not die. But if you do not give Sarah back, you and all your family will surely die.”

It was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, “Let the Lord watch over us while we are separated from each other.

The Ammonites gathered for war and camped in Gilead. The Israelites gathered and camped at Mizpah.

So the Israelites put away their idols of Baal and Ashtoreth, and they served only the Lord.

When the elders said that, Samuel was not pleased. He prayed to the Lord,

It is now the time of the wheat harvest. I will pray for the Lord to send thunder and rain. Then you will know what an evil thing you did against the Lord when you asked for a king.”

So Jeremiah went to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah and stayed with him there. He lived among the people who were left behind in Judah.

“Listen, you priests. Pay attention, people of Israel. Listen, royal family, because you will all be judged. You have been like a trap at Mizpah and like a net spread out at Mount Tabor.




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