place · also Mizpah
Mizpeh Valley
מִצְפָּה
The Valley of Mizpeh (Mizpah), a region near Mount Hermon where Joshua defeated the kings of the northern Canaanite coalition (Joshua 11:3, 8).
- verses
- 2
- first named
- Joshua 11:3
- last named
- Joshua 11:8
- feature
- region
- coordinates
- 33.25°N · 35.71°E
Qalat es Subeibeh (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 5 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Mizpeh Valley in the text
The Valley of Mizpeh, also known as Mizpah, is mentioned in Joshua 11:3 and 11:8 as a region near Mount Hermon in the northern part of Canaan. It was inhabited by the Hivites, one of the Canaanite tribes. The Canaanite kings of the region, including Jabin king of Hazor, gathered their forces in the Valley of Mizpeh to fight against Joshua and the Israelites. Joshua, following God's command, launched a surprise attack against the Canaanite coalition and decisively defeated them, pursuing them as far as Great Sidon and the Valley of Mizpeh to the east (Joshua 11:8). The exact location of the Valley of Mizpeh is not certain, but it is believed to be in the vicinity of Mount Hermon, possibly in the Beqaa Valley or the Huleh Valley.
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Direct connections
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Contains
Stands in the same events as
- Israel1 event
- Sidon1 event
- Misrephoth-maim1 event
The pattern
Where Mizpeh Valley 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.
2 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Joshua (2).
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Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 1 book.
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