Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you die-die, you, and all who are yours.”
1 Samuel 7:5 - Y'all Version Bible Samuel said, “Y’all gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to YHWH for y’all.” 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’s wife. For he is a prophet and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you die-die, you, and all who are yours.”
and Mizpah, for he said, “May YHWH watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Kareah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them.
Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and lived with him among the people who were left in the land.
“Priests, y’all must listen to this! House of Israel, y’all must pay attention! House of the king, y’all must open your ears! For the judgment is against y’all; because y’all have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.
Y’all gather the people. Y’all sanctify the assembly. Y’all assemble the elders. Y’all gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her chamber.
Then the children of Ammon were gathered together and encamped in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together and encamped in Mizpah.
Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to YHWH at Mizpah.
Isn’t it wheat harvest today? I will call on YHWH to send thunder and rain. Then y’all will know and see that y’all’s wickedness is great which y’all have done in YHWH’s sight by asking for a king.”
As for me, far be it from me that I should sin against YHWH by ceasing to pray for y’all. I will instruct y’all in the good and the right way.
Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, “YHWH helped us until now.”
He went from year to year in a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.
Then the children of Israel removed the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served YHWH only.
But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” Samuel prayed to YHWH.