Places of the Bible
Mizpah
A place in Gilead
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Mizpah, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.
- Oppression by Ammon and Philistia · 1169 BC · 1 verse
- Deliverance by Jephthah · 1151 BC · 3 verses
- Prophecies of Hosea · 784 BC · 1 verse
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
A place in Gilead, so named by Laban, who overtook Jacob at this spot (Gen. 31:49) on his return to Palestine from Padan-aram. Here Jacob and Laban set up their memorial cairn of stones. It is the same as Ramath-mizpeh (Josh. 13:26).
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 6 verses
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.