And Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord for you.”
Parallel translations
- WEB Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to Yahweh for you.”
- KJV And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the LORD.
- BSB Then Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the LORD on your behalf.”
- 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 assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah.
- 1 Sam 12:23Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
- 1 Sam 7:16He went from year to year in a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.
- Neh 9:1Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them.
- Josh 15:38Dilean, Mizpah, Joktheel,
- 1 Sam 7:12Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, “Yahweh helped us until now.”
- Joel 2:16Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her room.
- 1 Sam 10:17Samuel called the people together to Yahweh to Mizpah;
- 2 Kgs 25:23Now 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, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, 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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