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Dilean, Mizpah, Joktheel,
Joshua 15:38 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,
  • BSB Dilan, Mizpeh, Joktheel,
  • NKJV Dilean, Mizpah, Joktheel,
  • NASB Dilean, Mizpeh, and Joktheel,
  • NLT Dilean, Mizpeh, Joktheel,

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 7

  • 2 Kgs 14:7He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.
  • 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 10:17Samuel called the people together to Yahweh to Mizpah;
  • Judg 21:5The children of Israel said, “Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up in the assembly to Yahweh?” For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”
  • 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.
  • Gen 31:48–49Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed
  • 1 Sam 7:5–6Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to Yahweh for you.”

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Christ at the center

Joshua — the same name as Jesus, 'the LORD saves' — leads God's people into their inheritance, a shadow of the greater Joshua who brings us into the true rest and the promised land that remains.

How Joshua 15:38 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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