Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for you, and you shall live: and if you restore her not, know that you shall surely die, you, and all that are yours.
1 Samuel 7:5 - King James 2000 And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray for you unto the LORD. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpah and I will pray to the Lord for you. American Standard Version (1901) And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray for you unto Jehovah. Common English Bible Next Samuel said, “Assemble all Israel at Mizpah. I will pray to the LORD for you.” Catholic Public Domain Version And Samuel said, "Gather all of Israel at Mizpah, so that I may pray for you to the Lord." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Samuel said: Gather all Israel to Masphath, that I may pray to the Lord for you. |
Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for you, and you shall live: and if you restore her not, know that you shall surely die, you, and all that are yours.
And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
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 Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maacathite, they and their men.
Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and in sackcloth, and earth upon their heads.
Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.
Hear you this, O priests; and hearken, you house of Israel; and give you ear, O house of the king; for judgment is for you, because you have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that nurse: let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her chamber.
Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpah.
Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpah.
Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that you may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.
Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Thus far has the LORD helped us.
And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpah, and judged Israel in all those places.
Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only.
But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.