1 Samuel 7:6

New International Version

When they had assembled at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the Lord. On that day they fasted and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the Lord.” Now Samuel was serving as leader of Israel at Mizpah.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But that is not what God desires; rather, he devises ways so that a banished person does not remain banished from him.

1 Samuel 1:15

“Not so, my lord,” Hannah replied, “I am a woman who is deeply troubled. I have not been drinking wine or beer; I was pouring out my soul to the Lord.

Judges 10:10

Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord, “We have sinned against you, forsaking our God and serving the Baals.”

Joel 2:12

“Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.”

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh, that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night for the slain of my people.

Psalm 106:6

We have sinned, even as our ancestors did; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.

Psalm 62:8

Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge.

Luke 15:18

I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

Psalm 119:136

Streams of tears flow from my eyes, for your law is not obeyed.

1 Kings 8:47

and if they have a change of heart in the land where they are held captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors and say, ‘We have sinned, we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly’;

Ezekiel 20:4

“Will you judge them? Will you judge them, son of man? Then confront them with the detestable practices of their ancestors

Lamentations 3:49

My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief,

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

Jeremiah 31:19

After I strayed, I repented; after I came to understand, I beat my breast. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 6:6

I am worn out from my groaning. All night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

Job 42:6

Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”

Job 40:4

“I am unworthy—how can I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth.

Job 33:27

And they will go to others and say, ‘I have sinned, I have perverted what is right, but I did not get what I deserved.

Job 16:20

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

Nehemiah 9:27

So you delivered them into the hands of their enemies, who oppressed them. But when they were oppressed they cried out to you. From heaven you heard them, and in your great compassion you gave them deliverers, who rescued them from the hand of their enemies.

2 Chronicles 20:3

Alarmed, Jehoshaphat resolved to inquire of the Lord, and he proclaimed a fast for all Judah.

Judges 3:10

The Spirit of the Lord came on him, so that he became Israel’s judge and went to war. The Lord gave Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram into the hands of Othniel, who overpowered him.

Leviticus 26:40

“ ‘But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me,

Genesis 31:49

It was also called Mizpah, because he said, “May the Lord keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other.

Leviticus 16:29

“This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month you must deny yourselves and not do any work—whether native-born or a foreigner residing among you—

1 Samuel 7:15

Samuel continued as Israel’s leader all the days of his life.

Jeremiah 36:9

In the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a time of fasting before the Lord was proclaimed for all the people in Jerusalem and those who had come from the towns of Judah.

Joshua 18:26

Mizpah, Kephirah, Mozah,

Judges 2:4

When the angel of the Lord had spoken these things to all the Israelites, the people wept aloud,

Judges 10:15

But the Israelites said to the Lord, “We have sinned. Do with us whatever you think best, but please rescue us now.”

Judges 20:23

The Israelites went up and wept before the Lord until evening, and they inquired of the Lord. They said, “Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjamites, our fellow Israelites?” The Lord answered, “Go up against them.”

Judges 20:26

Then all the Israelites, the whole army, went up to Bethel, and there they sat weeping before the Lord. They fasted that day until evening and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the Lord.

1 Samuel 10:17

Samuel summoned the people of Israel to the Lord at Mizpah

1 Samuel 12:10

They cried out to the Lord and said, ‘We have sinned; we have forsaken the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtoreths. But now deliver us from the hands of our enemies, and we will serve you.’

1 Chronicles 11:18

So the Three broke through the Philistine lines, drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem and carried it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out to the Lord.

Job 3:24

For sighing has become my daily food; my groans pour out like water.

Lamentations 5:16

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

Hosea 5:1

“Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, you Israelites! Listen, royal house! This judgment is against you: You have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor.