Bible Location
Meaning: Mizpeh · 1 cross reference · Modern-day map available
This Mizpah entry refers to the northern site near Mount Hermon, distinct from both the Benjaminite and Gileadite Mizpahs. It is important as a lookout-region reference in the north of the land and its surrounding territories. First appears in Josh 11:3.1
AI summary: The name Mizpah means watch-point, and this northern Mizpah fits that sense well. Its references place it in the far north near Mount Hermon, making it a geographic lookout name rather than a central sanctuary or covenant site. Because it shares its name with better-known Mizpahs, distinguishing it matters for accurate reading. The cross references present this entry as a northern landmark whose significance is primarily geographic and regional.1
Another place in Gilead, at the foot of Mount Hermon, inhabited by Hivites (Josh. 11:3, 8). The name in Hebrew here has the article before it, “the Mizpeh,” “the watch-tower.” The modern village of Metullah, meaning also “the look-out,” probably occupies the site so called. 3
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.