Places
Mizpah in Judges 20
MIZ-puh
This place shows up in Judges 20:1: “Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real place in a real place.
Judges 20:1
“Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah.”
What kids can learn
When you hear mizpah in Judges, remember the sentence around it. God put this place in the story on purpose.
Read Judges 20:1 again tomorrow and ask what the place is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Judges 20:1
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Thenallthechildrenofout,andthewasassembledasoneman,fromDaneventoBeersheba,withthelandofGilead,toYahwehatMizpah.