Places of the Bible

Mizpeh

first named in 1 Samuel 22:3 · City

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Mizpeh, 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.

Reign of Saul · 1094 BC · 1 verse

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

A town of Moab to which David removed his parents for safety during his persecution by Saul (1 Sam. 22:3). This was probably the citadel known as Kir-Moab, now Kerak. While David resided here he was visited by the prophet Gad, here mentioned for the first time, who was probably sent by Samuel to bid him leave the land of Moab and betake himself to the land of Judah. He accordingly removed to the forest of Hareth (q.v.), on the edge of the mountain chain of Hebron.

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 1 verse

1 Samuel: 22:3

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.