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Mizpah (II)

II. MIZPAH, or Masphath, in the Tribe of Gad, and in the Mountains of Galeed. ‘Twas in this Place that Laban and Jacob Gen. xxxi. 49.made a Covenant together. Jephthah dwelt at Mizpah, and there made a Covenant with the Israelites on the other Side of Jordan, who chose him for their Captain; and there he assembled the Troops with which he Judg. xi. 11, 29, 34.fought the Ammonites. This City is sometimes ascribed to the Countrey of Moab1, because the Moabites conquered it, and kept Possession of it.

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  1. 1 Sam. xxii. 3. Profectus est David in Maspha, quæ est Moab. ↩

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