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
3 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
Now the cities of the
on Joshua 18:21-28
Jericho heads Benjamin's city list, the town Joshua cursed at 6:26, and 1 Kings 16:34 records that curse falling on Hiel of Bethel generations later. Gibeon, Chephirah and Beeroth are three of the four Gibeonite towns of chapter 9, so the men Joshua swore to spare end up living inside this tribe's inheritance. Gaba at verse 24 and Gibeath at verse 28 are Gibeah, the town of Judges 19 and 20 that nearly cost Benjamin its existence and later the home of Saul at 1 Samuel 11:4; Mizpeh at verse 26 is where Israel gathers to judge that crime at Judges 20:1. Verse 28 places Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, in Benjamin's list, while 15:63 records Judah failing to drive the Jebusites out and Judges 1:21 records Benjamin failing, and both accounts stand as written.
The record, by era
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
About Joshua
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.