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The name Mizpah contains the root verb meaning "let him watch" (imperfect tense).
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The name Mizpah contains the root verb meaning "let him watch" (imperfect tense).
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The name Mizpah contains the root verb meaning "let him watch" (imperfect tense).
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15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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10 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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It was also called Mizpah, the "watch-tower," the outpost from which the dweller in
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Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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The group have also unearthed silver love tokens given by men to women ( "If she loved you she kept it, if she threw it away we find it") and a so-called Mizpah, a silver Second World War curio of two adjoining hearts given by women to men going off to battle.
Shropshire Star 2008
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Inspired by the covenant at Mizpah, and with a desire to help others to establish covenants of peace, and to accept with cheerful resignation enforced separation from loved ones, a recent writer, Julia A. Baker, has written beautifully the following poem entitled "Mizpah":
My Three Days in Gilead Elmer Ulysses Hoenshel
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"Mizpah" itself is a rather general term: there were many points of eminence in the land which could serve as
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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