And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the LORD.
Parallel translations
- WEB Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to Yahweh for you.”
- BSB Then Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the LORD on your behalf.”
- NKJV And Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord for you.”
- NASB Then Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah and I will pray to the Lord for you.”
- NLT Then Samuel told them, “Gather all of Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord for you.”
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Samuel gathers all Israel to Mizpah and pledges to intercede for them in prayer.
Overview
Mizpah becomes a place of national assembly and renewal under Samuel's leadership. As prophet and judge, Samuel mediates between God and the people through prayer, a role that foreshadows the greater intercession of Christ. His promise to pray shows the centrality of intercession in Israel's restoration.
Cross-references & the web
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- Judg 20:1Then 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 Mizpeh.
- 1 Sam 12:23Moreover 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:
- 1 Sam 7:16And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.
- Neh 9:1Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.
- Josh 15:38And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,
- 1 Sam 7:12Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.
- Joel 2:16Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
- 1 Sam 10:17And Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to Mizpeh;
- 2 Kgs 25:23And 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 Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
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The rise of the anointed king after Israel's failed first choice points to the true Anointed One (Messiah means 'anointed'), the shepherd-king after God's own heart from Bethlehem.
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