2 others in the registry answer to the name Mizpah. Every Mizpah in the Bible
place · also Mizpeh · Ramah · Ramathaim-zophim · Arimathea
Mizpah
מִצְפָּהἈριμαθαία
Mizpah (Mizpeh, Ramah, Ramathaim-zophim, Arimathea), a city in Benjamin where the Israelites gathered for judgment and prayer (Judges 20:1, 3; 21:1, 5, 8; 1Sa.7.5-7, 11-12, 16; 10:17), and the hometown of Samuel (1Sa.1.19; 2:11; 7:17; 8:4; 15:34; 16:13; 19:18-23; 20:1; 25:1; 28:3) and Joseph of Arimathea (Matthew 27:57; Mrk.15.43; Luke 23:50-51; Jhn.19.38).
- verses
- 50
- first named
- Joshua 18:26
- last named
- John 19:38
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 32.03°N · 35.02°E
Rantis (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 12 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Mizpah in the text
Mizpah, also known as Mizpeh, Ramah, Ramathaim-zophim, or Arimathea, was a city located in the tribal territory of Benjamin, near the border with Ephraim. It was an important religious and political center during the period of the judges and the early monarchy.
During the time of the judges, the Israelites gathered at Mizpah to address the crisis involving the tribe of Benjamin and the concubine at Gibeah (Judges 20:1, 3; 21:1, 5, 8). Later, the prophet Samuel summoned the people to Mizpah for prayer, repentance, and deliverance from the Philistines (1Sa.7.5-7, 11-12, 16). Samuel also gathered the Israelites at Mizpah to appoint Saul as their first king (1Sa.10.17).
Mizpah was the hometown and burial place of Samuel (1Sa.1.19; 2:11; 7:17; 8:4; 15:34; 16:13; 19:18-23; 20:1; 25:1; 28:3). It was also the city of Joseph of Arimathea, the wealthy disciple who provided the tomb for Jesus' burial (Matthew 27:57; Mrk.15.43; Luke 23:50-51; Jhn.19.38).
During the divided monarchy, King Asa of Judah fortified Mizpah using materials from the dismantled fortifications of Ramah (1Ki.15.22; 2Ch.16.6). After the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem, Mizpah served as the administrative center for the remnant of Judah under Gedaliah (2Ki.25.23, 25; Jeremiah 40:6, 8, 10, 12-13, 15; 41:1, 3, 6, 10, 14, 16).
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Direct connections
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The pattern
Where Mizpah is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
50 verses across 12 of 66 books; 54 write the name nowhere. Named in Joshua (1), Judges (5), 1 Samuel (21), 1 Kings (1), 2 Kings (2), 2 Chronicles (1), Nehemiah (3), Jeremiah (12), Matthew (1), Mark (1), Luke (1) and John (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 50, across 12 books. The name is written 55 times in them.
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Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Judges 20Mizpah hosted Israel’s great assembly before the LORD.
- Judges 21Mizpah was where Israel assembled and swore its two troublesome oaths.
- 1 Samuel 7Mizpah hosted Israel’s gathering, confession, judgment, and the beginning of its pursuit of the Philistines.
- Jeremiah 41Mizpah held Gedaliah’s meal, his murder, the slaughter of the mourning men, and the seizure of its remnant.
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