Joshua 18:26

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And Mizpeh and Chephirah and Mozah

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,

Hebrew Names Version
and Mitzpeh, and Kefirah, and Motzah,

King James Version
And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,

Lexham English Bible
Mizpeh, Kephirah, Mozah,

English Standard Version
Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,

New Century Version
Mizpah, Kephirah, Mozah,

New English Translation
Mizpah, Kephirah, Mozah,

Amplified Bible
and Mizpeh and Chephirah and Mozah,

New American Standard Bible
Mizpeh, Chephirah, and Mozah,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Mizpeh, & Chephirah, and Mozah,

Legacy Standard Bible
and Mizpeh and Chephirah and Mozah,

Complete Jewish Bible
Mitzpeh, K'firah, Motzah,

Darby Translation
and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,

Easy-to-Read Version
Mizpah, Kephirah, Mozah,

George Lamsa Translation
Mizpah, Chepirah, Mozah,

Good News Translation
Mizpah, Chephirah, Mozah,

Literal Translation
and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Mispa, Caphira, Moza,

American Standard Version
and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Mispeh, Chephirah, and Mosah,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah;

King James Version (1611)
And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and Massema, and Miron, and Amoke;

English Revised Version
and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah;

Berean Standard Bible
Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Beroth, and Mesphe, and Caphera, and Ammosa,

Young's Literal Translation
and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,

Update Bible Version
and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,

Webster's Bible Translation
And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,

World English Bible
and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,

New King James Version
Mizpah, Chephirah, Mozah,

New Living Translation
Mizpah, Kephirah, Mozah,

New Life Bible
Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,

New Revised Standard
Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and Mizpeh and Chephirah, and Mozah,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Mesphe, and Caphara, and Amosa,

Revised Standard Version
Mizpeh, Chephi'rah, Mozah,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and Mizpeh and Chephirah and Mozah,

Contextual Overview

¹¹ And the first heritage came out for the tribe of Benjamin by their families: and the limit of their heritage went between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph. ¹² And their limit on the north was from the Jordan, and the line goes up to the side of Jericho on the north and through the hill-country to the west, ending at the waste land of Beth-aven. ¹³ And from there the line goes south to Luz, to the side of Luz (which is Beth-el), then down to Ataroth-addar, by the mountain to the south of Beth-horon the lower. ¹⁴ And the limit is marked as coming round to the south on the west side from the mountain which is south of Beth-horon, and ending at Kiriath-baal (which is Kiriath-jearim), a town of the children of Judah: this is the west part. ¹⁵ And the south part is from the farthest point of Kiriath-jearim, and the line goes out to the west to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah: ¹⁶ And the line goes down to the farthest part of the mountain facing the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is on the north of the valley of Rephaim: from there it goes down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite on the south as far as En-rogel; ¹⁷ And it goes to En-shemesh and on to Geliloth, opposite the way up to Adummim, and it goes down to the stone of Bohan, the son of Reuben; ¹⁸ And it goes on to the side facing the Arabah to the north, and down to the Arabah; ¹⁹ And on to the north side of Beth-hoglah, ending at the north inlet of the Salt Sea at the south end of Jordan; this is their limit on the south. ²⁰ And the limit of the east part is the Jordan. This is the heritage of the children of Benjamin, marked out for their families by these limits on all sides.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Mizpeh: Situated not far from Rama, forty stadia from Jerusalem. Judges 10:17

Chephirah: Joshua 9:17, Ezra 2:25

Reciprocal: Joshua 11:3 - land Judges 19:13 - Gibeah Judges 20:1 - in Mizpeh 1 Kings 15:22 - Mizpah 2 Chronicles 16:6 - Mizpah

Cross-References

Isaiah 6:13
And even if there is still a tenth part in it, it will again be burned, like a tree of the woods whose broken end is still in the earth after the tree has been cut down (the holy seed is the broken end).

Isaiah 10:22
For though your people, O Israel, are as the sand of the sea, only a small number will come back: for the destruction is fixed, overflowing in righteousness.

Isaiah 19:24
In that day Israel will be the third together with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the earth:

Isaiah 65:8
This is the word of the Lord: As the new wine is seen in the grapes, and they say, Do not send destruction on it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants, in order that I may not put an end to them all.

Jeremiah 5:1
Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.

Ezekiel 22:30
And I was looking for a man among them who would make up the wall and take his station in the broken place before me for the land, so that I might not send destruction on it: but there was no one.

Matthew 24:22
And if those days had not been made short there would have been no salvation for any, but because of the saints those days will be made short.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And 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, Joshua 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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the marginal references. There are many indications found in this and the next chapter that the text is in great disorder, and many of the places are still unknown.

Joshua 18:14

And compassed the corner ... - Render “and turned on the west side southward.” The meaning is, that at lower Beth-horon the northern boundary-line of Benjamin curved round and ran southward - Beth-horon being its extreme westerly point.

Joshua 18:21

The “Valley of Keziz,” or “Emek-Keziz,” is perhaps the “Wady el Kaziz,” at no great distance east of Jerusalem.

Joshua 18:22

Zemaraim, i. e. “two wooded hills,” is supposed to be the ruins called “Es-Sumrah,” on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho.

Joshua 18:23

Ophrah (Joshua 15:9 note), to be distinguished here and in 1 Samuel 13:17 from the Ophrah of Judges 6:11, is probably the Ephrain of 2 Chronicles 13:19, and the Ephraim of John 11:54. It is conjecturally identified with “Et-Taiyibeh,” on the road from Jerusalem to Bethel.

Joshua 18:24

Gaba - This name, like Gibeah, Gibeon, etc. Joshua 9:3, indicates a town placed on a hill, and occurs repeatedly in various forms in the topography of Palestine. Gaba is the Gibeah (if 1 Samuel 13:15-16; 1 Samuel 14:5, where the Hebrew has גבע Geba‛, which is undoubtedly the correct reading throughout. The city was one of those assigned to the Levites Joshua 21:17, and lay on the northern border of Judah. It is identified with the modern “Jeba,” lying on the side of a deep ravine opposite to Michmash (“Mukhmas”). The famous “Gibeah of Saul,” or “Giheah of Benjamin” (the Gibeath of Joshua 18:28) lay at no great distance southwest of Geba, on the high road from Jerusalem to Bethel, and is probably to be looked for in the lofty and isolated “Tulcil-el-Ful.”

Joshua 18:25

Ramah - i. e. “lofty;” probably the native town and abode of Samuel 1Sa 1:19; 1 Samuel 25:1. Its exact site is uncertain.

Joshua 18:26

Mizpeh - See Joshua 11:3. Not the Mizpeh of Joshua 15:38, but the place where Samuel judged the people and called them together for the election of a king 1 Samuel 7:5-16; 1 Samuel 10:17. In the Chaldaean times it was the residence of Gedaliah 2 Kings 25:22; Jeremiah 40:14. Its site is identified with “Neby Samwil,” about five miles northwest of Jerusalem.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 18:26. 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. Judges 20:1-3. Samuel assembled the people here to exhort them to renounce their idolatry, 1 Samuel 7:5-6. In this same place Saul was chosen to be king, 1 Samuel 10:17. It was deemed a sacred place among the Israelites; for we find, from 1Mac 3:46, that the Jews assembled here to seek God, when their enemies were in possession of the temple.