Mizpah

Certainty

Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)

Coordinates

31.885° N, 35.216° E

Ramah· Mizpah· Arimathea· Mizpeh· Ramathaim-zophim

• Ἀριμαθαία·Arimatheameans “a lion dead to the Lord”
• מִצְפֶּה·Mizpeh
• מִצְפָּה·Mizpah
• רָמָה·Ramah
• רָמָתַיִם צוֹפִים·Ramathaim-zophimmeans “the two watch-towers”

1. Joshua 18:26מִצְפֶּה · Mizpeh
   Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,
2. Judges 20:1מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
   Then all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came out, and the congregation assembled as one man before the LORD at Mizpah.
3. Judges 20:3מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
   (Meanwhile the Benjamites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.) And the Israelites asked, “Tell us, how did this wicked thing happen?”
4. Judges 21:1מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
   Now the men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.”
5. Judges 21:5מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
   The Israelites asked, “Who among all the tribes of Israel did not come to the assembly before the LORD?” For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah would surely be put to death.
6. Judges 21:8מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
   So they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah?” And, in fact, no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.
7. 1 Samuel 1:1רָמָתַיִם צוֹפִים · Ramathaim-zophim
   Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
8. 1 Samuel 1:19רָמָה · Ramah
   The next morning they got up early to bow in worship before the LORD, and then they returned home to Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.
9. 1 Samuel 2:11רָמָה · Ramah
   Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy began ministering to the LORD before Eli the priest.
10. 1 Samuel 7:5מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    Then Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the LORD on your behalf.”
11. 1 Samuel 7:6מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day they fasted, and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the LORD.” And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.
12. 1 Samuel 7:7מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    When the Philistines heard that the Israelites had gathered at Mizpah, their rulers marched up toward Israel. And when the Israelites learned of this, they feared the Philistines
13. 1 Samuel 7:11מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    Then the men of Israel charged out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, striking them down all the way to an area below Beth-car.
14. 1 Samuel 7:12מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    Afterward, Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.”
15. 1 Samuel 7:16מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    Every year he would go on a circuit from Bethel to Gilgal to Mizpah, judging Israel in all these places.
16. 1 Samuel 7:17רָמָה · Ramah
    Then he would return to Ramah because his home was there, and there he judged Israel and built an altar to the LORD.
17. 1 Samuel 8:4רָמָה · Ramah
    So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah.
18. 1 Samuel 10:17מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    After this, Samuel summoned the people to the LORD at Mizpah
19. 1 Samuel 15:34רָמָה · Ramah
    Then Samuel went to Ramah, but Saul went up to his home in Gibeah of Saul.
20. 1 Samuel 16:13רָמָה · Ramah
    So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward. Then Samuel set out and went to Ramah.
21. 1 Samuel 19:18רָמָה · Ramah
    So David ran away and escaped. And he went to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to Naioth and stayed there.
22. 1 Samuel 19:19רָמָה · Ramah
    When Saul was told that David was at Naioth in Ramah,
23. 1 Samuel 19:22רָמָה · Ramah
    Finally, Saul himself left for Ramah and came to the large cistern at Secu, where he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” “At Naioth in Ramah,” he was told.
24. 1 Samuel 19:23רָמָה · Ramah
    So Saul went to Naioth in Ramah. But the Spirit of God came upon even Saul, and he walked along prophesying until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
25. 1 Samuel 20:1רָמָה · Ramah
    Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? How have I sinned against your father, that he wants to take my life?”
26. 1 Samuel 25:1רָמָה · Ramah
    When Samuel died, all Israel gathered to mourn for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David set out and went down to the Wilderness of Paran.
27. 1 Samuel 28:3רָמָה · Ramah
    Now by this time Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had removed the mediums and spiritists from the land.
28. 1 Kings 15:22מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    Then King Asa summoned all the men of Judah, with no exceptions, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had used for building. And with these materials King Asa built up Geba of Benjamin, as well as Mizpah.
29. 2 Kings 25:23מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    When all the commanders of the armies and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maacathite, as well as their men.
30. 2 Kings 25:25מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down and killed Gedaliah, along with the Judeans and Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.
31. 2 Chronicles 16:6מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    Then King Asa brought all the men of Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had used for building. And with these materials he built up Geba and Mizpah.
32. Nehemiah 3:7מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    Next to them, repairs were made by Melatiah the Gibeonite, Jadon the Meronothite, and the men of Gibeon and Mizpah, who were under the authority of the governor of the region west of the Euphrates.
33. Nehemiah 3:15מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    The Fountain Gate was repaired by Shallun son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah. He rebuilt it, roofed it, and installed its doors, bolts, and bars. He also repaired the wall of the Pool of Shelah near the king’s garden, as far as the stairs that descend from the City of David.
34. Nehemiah 3:19מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    And next to him, Ezer son of Jeshua, ruler of Mizpah, repaired another section opposite the ascent to the armory, near the angle in the wall.
35. Jeremiah 40:6מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    So Jeremiah went to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah and stayed with him among the people who were left in the land.
36. Jeremiah 40:8מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    …they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah son of the Maacathite—they and their men.
37. Jeremiah 40:10מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    As for me, I will stay in Mizpah to represent you before the Chaldeans who come to us. As for you, gather wine grapes, summer fruit, and oil, place them in your storage jars, and live in the cities you have taken.”
38. Jeremiah 40:12מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    …they all returned from all the places to which they had been banished and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah. And they gathered an abundance of wine grapes and summer fruit.
39. Jeremiah 40:13מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    Meanwhile, Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies in the field came to Gedaliah at Mizpah
40. Jeremiah 40:15מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah. “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,” he said. “No one will know it. Why should he take your life and scatter all the people of Judah who have gathered to you, so that the remnant of Judah would perish?”
41. Jeremiah 41:1מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    In the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family and one of the king’s chief officers, came with ten men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah, and they ate a meal together there.
42. Jeremiah 41:3מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, as well as the Chaldean soldiers who were there.
43. Jeremiah 41:6מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    And Ishmael son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he went. When Ishmael encountered the men, he said, “Come to Gedaliah son of Ahikam.”
44. Jeremiah 41:10מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    Then Ishmael took captive all the remnant of the people of Mizpah—the daughters of the king along with all the others who remained in Mizpah—over whom Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam. Ishmael son of Nethaniah took them captive and set off to cross over to the Ammonites.
45. Jeremiah 41:14מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    …and all the people whom Ishmael had taken captive at Mizpah turned and went over to Johanan son of Kareah.
46. Jeremiah 41:16מִצְפָּה · Mizpah
    Then Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies with him took the whole remnant of the people from Mizpah whom he had recovered from Ishmael son of Nethaniah after Ishmael had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam: the soldiers, women, children, and court officials he had brought back from Gibeon.
47. Matthew 27:57Ἀριμαθαία · Arimathea
    When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph, who himself was a disciple of Jesus.
48. Mark 15:43Ἀριμαθαία · Arimathea
    Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent Council member who himself was waiting for the kingdom of God, boldly went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus.
49. Luke 23:51Ἀριμαθαία · Arimathea
    …who had not consented to their decision or action. He was from the Judean town of Arimathea and was waiting for the kingdom of God.
50. John 19:38Ἀριμαθαία · Arimathea
    Afterward, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus (but secretly for fear of the Jews), asked Pilate to let him remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and removed His body.