Everyday words
Mizpah
Start with Genesis 31:49, where the Bible uses the word mizpah in a real sentence: “and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 31:49
“and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.”
2. Joshua 11:3
“to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.”
3. Joshua 11:8
“Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpah eastward. They struck them until they left them no one remaining.”
4. Judges 10:17
“Then the children of Ammon were gathered together and encamped in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together and encamped in Mizpah.”
5. Judges 11:11
“Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them. Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah.”
6. Judges 11:29
“Then Yahweh’s Spirit came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon.”
7. Judges 11:34
“Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter.”
8. 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.”
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Practice Genesis 31:49
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
andMizpah,forhesaid,“Yahwehbetweenmeandyou,weareonefromanother.