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== Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary <ref name="term_48232" /> == | == Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary <ref name="term_48232" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> A city of Judah. ( Joshua 15:38) Perhaps the same that is spoken of by Samuel, where he set up, between [[Mizpeh]] and Shur, the Ebenezer. (See 1 Samuel 7:5-7) The name signifies a place of look-out, or enquiry. </p> <p> Mizpeh and Tabor, in after-ages, were places which lay in the path from [[Samaria]] to Jerusalem; so that here the priests of the calves set spies, which Hosea the [[Prophet]] figuratively called nets, to catch the pure worshippers who ventured, in those dangerous times of idolatry, to go up to worship [[Jehovah]] at Jerusalem. (See Hosea 5:1) </p> | ||
== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_73991" /> == | == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_73991" /> == | ||
<p> '''Miz'peh.''' ''( | <p> '''Miz'peh.''' ''(A Watch-Tower).'' ''See '' [[Mizpah]] ''.'' </p> | ||
== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_36600" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_36600" /> == | ||
<p> (See [[Mizpah.) | <p> (See [[Mizpah]] .) </p> | ||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_67766" /> == | == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_67766" /> == | ||
<p> See | <p> See MIZPAH </p> | ||
== Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_16189" /> == | == Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_16189" /> == | ||
<p> Miz´peh. This name has the same meaning and application as Mizpah, and is borne by several places mentioned in Scripture. </p> <p> Mizpeh, 1 </p> <p> | <p> Miz´peh. This name has the same meaning and application as Mizpah, and is borne by several places mentioned in Scripture. </p> <p> Mizpeh, 1 </p> <p> A town in the plains of Judah . [[Eusebius]] and [[Jerome]] identify it with a place which, in their time, bore the name of Mapha, on the borders of [[Eleutheropolis]] southward, on the road to Ælia or Jerusalem. </p> <p> Mizpeh, 2 </p> <p> The place more usually called Mizpah, in the tribe of Benjamin, is once called Mizpeh [MIZPAH, 2]. </p> <p> Mizpeh of Gilead, 3 </p> <p> Through or by which [[Jephthah]] passed in his pursuit of the [[Ammonites]] . Some think it the same with Mizpah, 1; and it is possibly the same with the Ramath-mizpeh of . </p> <p> Mizpeh, 4 </p> <p> A valley in the region of [[Lebanon]] (; comp. 11:3). </p> | ||
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