1 Samuel 7:5
Good News Translation
Then Samuel called for all the Israelites to meet at Mizpah, telling them, "I will pray to the LORD for you there."

New Revised Standard Version
Then Samuel said, “Gather all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray to the LORD for you.”

Contemporary English Version
Then Samuel said, "Tell everyone in Israel to meet together at Mizpah, and I will pray to the LORD for you."

New American Bible
Samuel then gave orders, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, that I may pray to the LORD for you.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Samuel said: Gather all Israel to Masphath, that I may pray to the Lord for you.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Samuel said: Gather all Israel to Masphath, that I may pray to the Lord for you.

Gather

Nehemiah 9:1 And in the four and twentieth day of the month the children of Israel came together with fasting and with sackcloth, and earth upon them.

Joel 2:16 Gather together the people, sanctify the church, assemble the ancients, gather together the little ones, and them that suck at the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth from his bed, and the bride out of her bridal chamber.

Mizpeh

1 Samuel 7:12,16 And Samuel took a stone, and laid it between Masphath and Sen: and he called the place The stone of help. And he said: Thus far the Lord hath helped us. . . .

1 Samuel 10:17 And Samuel called together the people to the Lord in Maspha:

Joshua 15:38 Delean and Masepha and Jecthel,

Judges 20:1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and gathered together as one man, from Dan to Bersabee, with the land of Galaad, to the Lord in Maspha:

2 Kings 25:23 And when all the captains of the soldiers had heard this, they and the men that were with them, to wit, that the king of Babylon had made Godolias governor they came to Godolias to Maspha, Ismael, the son of Nathanias, and Johanan, the son of Caree, and Saraia, the son of Thanehumeth, the Netophathite, and Jezonias, the son of Maachathi, they and their men.

I will pray

1 Samuel 12:23 And far from me be this sin against the Lord, that I should cease to pray for you: and I will teach you the good and right way.

Context
Samuel Subdues the Philistines
4Then the children of Israel put away Baalim and Astaroth, and served the Lord only. 5And Samuel said: Gather all Israel to Masphath, that I may pray to the Lord for you.6And they gathered together to Masphath, and they drew water, and poured it out before the Lord, and they fasted on that day, and they said there: We have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Masphath.…
Cross References
Genesis 20:7
Now therefore restore the man his wife, for he is a prophet: and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: but if thou wilt not restore her, know that thou shalt surely die, thou and all that are thine.

Genesis 31:49
The Lord behold and judge between us, when we shall be gone one from the other.

Judges 10:17
And the children of Ammon shouting together, pitched their tents in Galaad: against whom the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and camped in Maspha.

Judges 20:1
Then all the children of Israel went out, and gathered together as one man, from Dan to Bersabee, with the land of Galaad, to the Lord in Maspha:

1 Samuel 7:4
Then the children of Israel put away Baalim and Astaroth, and served the Lord only.

1 Samuel 7:16
And he went every year about to Bethel and to Galgal and to Masphath, and he judged Israel in the foresaid places.

1 Samuel 8:6
And the word was displeasing in the eyes of Samuel, that they should say: Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the Lord.

1 Samuel 10:17
And Samuel called together the people to the Lord in Maspha:

1 Samuel 12:17
Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call upon the Lord, and he shall send thunder and rain: and you shall know, and see that you yourselves have done a great evil in the sight of the Lord, in desiring a king over you.

Jeremiah 40:6
And Jeremiah went to Godolias the son of Ahicam to Masphath: and dwelt with him in the midst of the people that were left in the land.

1 Samuel 7:4
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