Joshua 18:26
in Joshua 18Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,
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and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
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And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
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This verse in Joshua 18
Commentary
5 notes on this verseAnd Mizpeh,.... Frequent mention is made of Mizpeh in Scripture; according to Fuller (t), it was about eight miles from Gibeah; it was near Ramathon, which Josephus says (u) was forty furlongs from Jerusalem: and Chephirah was one of the cities subject to Gibeon, Jos 9:17. and Mozah; there was a place called Motza, near to Jerusalem, where they used to go to get willows at the feast of tabernacles (w). (t) Pisgah-Sight, B. 2. c. 12. p. 209. (u) Antiqu. l. 8. c. 12. sect. 3. (w) Misn. Succah, c. 4. sect. 5.
This site's exposition
These were the cities of the clans
on Joshua 18:21-28
Jericho heads Benjamin's list, the town Joshua cursed at 6:26, and 1 Kings 16:34 records the curse falling on Hiel of Bethel. Verse 28 lists Jebus, which is Jerusalem, while 15:63 records Judah failing to drive out the Jebusites and Judges 1:21 records Benjamin failing.
This site's exposition
Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah
Clarke traces Mizpeh through its later assemblies: Samuel gathered Israel there at 1 Samuel 7:5-6, and summoned the people there again at 1 Samuel 10:17. Gill connects Mozah with a Motza near Jerusalem. He cites the Mishnah for willows cut there at the Feast of Tabernacles.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
The testimony of Israel and the thrones of judgment do well together, Ps. cxxii. Some think there was an eye to the name of the place, Shiloh being the name by which the Messiah was known in dying Jacob's prophecy ( Gen. xlix.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
And Mizpeh - This place is celebrated in the sacred writings. Here the people were accustomed to assemble often in the presence of the Lord, as in the deliberation concerning the punishment to be inflicted on the men of Gibeah, for the abuse of the Levite’s wife. Jdg 20:1-3. Samuel assembled the people here to exhort them to renounce their idolatry, 1Sa 7:5, 1Sa 7:6. In this same place Saul was chosen to be king, 1Sa 10:
The words behind it
3 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהַמִּצְפֶּ֥ה | vehamitzpeh | and <the> Mizpah | H4708 → | 6 times |
| וְהַכְּפִירָ֖ה | vehakefirah | and <the> Kephirah | H3716 → | |
| וְהַמֹּצָֽה׃ | vehamotzah | and <the> Mozah | H4681 → |
וְהַמִּצְפֶּ֥הand <the> Mizpah
vehamitzpehH4708 →6 times
וְהַכְּפִירָ֖הand <the> Kephirah
vehakefirahH3716 →
וְהַמֹּצָֽה׃and <the> Mozah
vehamotzahH4681 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Judges 10:17Then the Ammonites were called to arms and camped in Gilead, and the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah.
it leads to
- Judges 11:29
Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh, then through Mizpah of Gilead. And from there he advanced against the Ammonites.
- Genesis 31:49
It was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent from each other.
- Judges 11:11
So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him their leader and commander. And Jephthah repeated all his terms in the presence of the LORD at Mizpah.
- Judges 11:29
Through
Joshua 9:17So the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities—Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.
it leads to
- Nehemiah 7:29
the men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743;
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezra 2:25
the men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743;
- Joshua 18:25–28
Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
- 1 Samuel 7:1
Then the men of Kiriath-jearim came for the ark of the LORD and took it into Abinadab’s house on the hill. And they consecrated his son Eleazar to guard the ark of the LORD.
- Joshua 15:60
Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah—two cities, along with their villages.
- Nehemiah 7:29
Where this verse is studied
About Joshua
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.