• Mizpah ('watchtower') was either a royal city or fortress in Moab to which David removed his parents for safety during his persecution by Saul (1 Sam...
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  • article "Mizpah". Mizpah may refer to: Mizpah in Benjamin Mizpah in Gilead (disambiguation), several places Mizpah (Moab) Mizpah (Judah) Mizpah, Minnesota...
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  • when David was worried about the safety of his parents, he went to Mizpah in Moab to ask permission from the king to allow his father and mother to stay...
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    Ishmael slew the unsuspecting Gedaliah, the Chaldean garrison stationed in Mizpah, and all the Jews that were with him, casting their bodies into the pit...
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  • Misrephoth-maim Misti Mithcah Mithnite Mithredath Mitylene Mizar Mizpah Mizraim Mizzah Mnason Moab Moladah Molech Molid, begetter; Mordecai, dedicated to Mars...
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    the unfinished fortress and used its raw materials to fortify Geba and Mizpah in Benjamin on his side of the border. Asa's successor, Jehoshaphat, changed...
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    guard stationed at Mizpah (2 Kings 25:22–24; Jeremiah 40:6–8). The Bible reports that, on hearing this news, Jews who had fled to Moab, Ammon, Edom, and...
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    north, Mizpah, Jericho in the east, Jerusalem, Beth-Zur in the west and En-Gedi in the south. The administrative centre of the province was Mizpah. On hearing...
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  • in the north, Mizpah, Jericho in the east, Jerusalem, Beth-Zur in the west and En-Gedi in the south. Jerusalem being in ruins, Mizpah was the administrative...
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    1 Samuel 22 (category Moab)
    hideout of fugitives. 3Then David went from there to Mizpah of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and mother come here with you...
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    Nebuchadnezzar transferred the administrative center from Jerusalem to Mizpah and appointed Gedaliah ben Aḥikam as governor of the province, under the...
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    away from him. David, worried about the safety of his parents, went to Mizpah in Moab, to ask permission from the King to allow his father Jesse and his mother...
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    War against the Midianites. Set in the southern Transjordanian regions of Moab and Midian, it narrates the Israelites waging war against the Midianites...
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    King Jehoiakim decided to stop the payments and went to war with Babylonia. Moab, Ammon and Chaldea went to war against Judah alongside Babylonia. (2 Kings...
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    "Welcome" on both sides. The elevation facing 17th Street was changed to "Mizpah", a Hebrew word expressing an emotional bond between separated people, and...
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    Jephtah's Daughter: A Biblical Tragedy Jordan River Minnith Mizpah in Benjamin Mizpah in Gilead Moab Red Sea Sihon Red Sea Spirit of the YHWH Tob Tribe of Manasseh...
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    and Ammonite settlements in Transjordan, around the towns of Gilead and Mizpah. It may have been first written down in the 8th century BCE, when the Northern...
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  • guard stationed at Mizpah (2 Kings 25:22–24; Jeremiah 40:6–8). The Bible reports that, on hearing this news, Jews who had fled to Moab, Ammon, Edom, and...
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  • Philistines following their raid on the Israelite assembly convened by Samuel at Mizpah, recorded in 1 Samuel 7:5-12. Beth-diblathaim Bethemek Bether Beth-ezal...
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    Sidon and Ashkelon (which were taken by force) and Byblos, Ashdod, Ammon, Moab, and Edom who then submitted to the payment of tribute to Assyria. Most notably...
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    were all devastated as a result of the Babylonian campaign. The town of Mizpah in Benjamin in the relatively unscathed northern section of the kingdom...
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  • Skrifter. Vol. 21. p. 69. ISBN 9788778761774. Steiner, Margreet L. (2014). "Moab during the Iron Age II period". In Steiner, Margreet L.; Killebrew, Ann E...
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    territory of Judah became a Babylonian province called Yehud with its center in Mizpah, north of the destroyed Jerusalem. Tablets that describe King Jehoiachin's...
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    part of the Jordan Valley, which has access to cross the Jordan River to Moab or Ammon (Jeremiah 40:14; 41:15 mention that the Ammonites were known to...
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    peace after each judge is a recurrent theme.) Ehud (3:11–29) vs. Eglon of Moab Deborah, directing Barak the army captain (4–5), vs. Jabin of Hazor (a city...
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    allowed to remain in the region under the governor Gedaliah, governing from Mizpah under close Babylonian monitoring. According to the Bible, and the 1st-century...
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    and Beersheba, both in the territory of Judah. Shiloh, Bethel, Gilgal, Mizpah, Ramah and Dan were also major sites for festivals, sacrifices, the making...
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    visit him, until he finds refuge for them at the court of the king of Moab in Mizpah. One of Saul's servants, Doeg the Edomite, saw David at Nob, and informs...
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  • Col-hozeh was the father of Shallum (Nehemiah 3:15), who was the official of Mizpah at the time, and head of the repairs to certain walls and fountains. He...
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    Chaldaean provinces (Ephal 2000, p. 142) a province with its capital at Mizpah, just north of Jerusalem. ... Throughout this era, the province was called...
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