1 Samuel 7:6

New English Translation

After they had assembled at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the Lord. They fasted on that day, and they confessed there, “We have sinned against the Lord.” So Samuel led the people of Israel at Mizpah.

Cross References

Genesis 31:49

It was also called Mizpah because he said, “May the Lord watch between us when we are out of sight of one another.

2 Samuel 14:14

Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored.

1 Kings 8:47

When your people come to their senses in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting, ‘We have sinned and gone astray; we have done evil.’

1 Chronicles 11:18

So the three elite warriors broke through the Philistine forces and drew some water from the cistern in Bethlehem near the city gate. They carried it back to David, but David refused to drink it. He poured it out as a drink offering to the Lord

2 Chronicles 20:3

Jehoshaphat was afraid, so he decided to seek the Lord’s advice. He decreed that all Judah should observe a fast.

Nehemiah 9:27

Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who oppressed them. But in the time of their distress they called to you, and you heard from heaven. In your abundant compassion you provided them with deliverers to rescue them from their adversaries.

Job 16:20

My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;

Job 3:24

For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.

Job 33:27

That person sings to others, saying: ‘I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.

Job 40:4

“Indeed, I am completely unworthy – how could I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth to silence myself.

Job 42:6

Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes!

Psalm 106:6

We have sinned like our ancestors; we have done wrong, we have done evil.

Psalm 119:136

Tears stream down from my eyes, because people do not keep your law. צ (Tsade)

Psalm 42:3

I cannot eat, I weep day and night; all day long they say to me, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 6:6

I am exhausted as I groan; all night long I drench my bed in tears; my tears saturate the cushion beneath me.

Psalm 62:8

Trust in him at all times, you people! Pour out your hearts before him! God is our shelter! (Selah)

Jeremiah 31:19

For after we turned away from you we repented. After we came to our senses we beat our breasts in sorrow. We are ashamed and humiliated because of the disgraceful things we did previously.’

Jeremiah 36:9

All the people living in Jerusalem and all the people who came into Jerusalem from the towns of Judah came to observe a fast before the Lord. The fast took place in the ninth month of the fifth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was ruling over Judah.

Jeremiah 9:1

(8:23) I wish that my head were a well full of water and my eyes were a fountain full of tears! If they were, I could cry day and night for those of my dear people who have been killed.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are worn out from weeping; my stomach is in knots. My heart is poured out on the ground due to the destruction of my helpless people; children and infants faint in the town squares. ל (Lamed)

Lamentations 3:49

Tears flow from my eyes and will not stop; there will be no break

Lamentations 5:16

The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!

Ezekiel 20:4

“Are you willing to pronounce judgment? Are you willing to pronounce judgment, son of man? Then confront them with the abominable practices of their fathers,

Hosea 5:1

Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, you Israelites! Listen closely, O king! For judgment is about to overtake you! For you were like a trap to Mizpah, like a net spread out to catch Tabor.

Joel 2:12

“Yet even now,” the Lord says, “return to me with all your heart – with fasting, weeping, and mourning. Tear your hearts, not just your garments!”

Leviticus 16:29

“This is to be a perpetual statute for you. In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you must humble yourselves and do no work of any kind, both the native citizen and the foreigner who resides in your midst,

Leviticus 26:40

However, when they confess their iniquity and their ancestors’ iniquity which they committed by trespassing against me, by which they also walked in hostility against me

Luke 15:18

I will get up and go to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

Joshua 18:26

Mizpah, Kephirah, Mozah,

Judges 10:10

The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord: “We have sinned against you. We abandoned our God and worshiped the Baals.”

Judges 10:15

But the Israelites said to the Lord, “We have sinned. You do to us as you see fit, but deliver us today!”

Judges 2:4

When the Lord’s messenger finished speaking these words to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly.

Judges 20:23

The Israelites went up and wept before the Lord until evening. They asked the Lord, “Should we again march out to fight the Benjaminites, our brothers?” The Lord said, “Attack them!”

Judges 20:26

So all the Israelites, the whole army, went up to Bethel. They wept and sat there before the Lord; they did not eat anything that day until evening. They offered up burnt sacrifices and tokens of peace to the Lord.

Judges 3:10

The Lord’s spirit empowered him and he led Israel. When he went to do battle, the Lord handed over to him King Cushan-Rishathaim of Aram and he overpowered him.

1 Samuel 1:15

But Hannah replied, “That’s not the way it is, my lord! I am under a great deal of stress. I have drunk neither wine nor beer. Rather, I have poured out my soul to the Lord.

1 Samuel 10:17

Then Samuel called the people together before the Lord at Mizpah.

1 Samuel 12:10

Then they cried out to the Lord and admitted, ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the images of Ashtoreth. Now deliver us from the hand of our enemies so that we may serve you.’

1 Samuel 7:15

So Samuel led Israel all the days of his life.