1 Samuel 7 · Verse 5

1 Samuel 7:5

And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the Lord.
1 Samuel 7:5, King James Version

1 Samuel 7:5 in other translations

BSBThen Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the LORD on your behalf.”
WEBSamuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the LORD for you.”
ASVAnd Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray for you unto Jehovah.
YLTand Samuel saith, ‘Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I pray for you unto Jehovah.'
DARBYAnd Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray Jehovah for you.
BBEThen Samuel said, Let all Israel come to Mizpah and I will make prayer to the Lord for you.
WebsterAnd Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you to the LORD.

What does 1 Samuel 7:5 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Samuel 7:3-6

3-6. Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel--A great national reformation was effected through the influence of Samuel. Disgusted with their foreign servitude, and panting for the restoration of liberty and independence, they were open to salutary impressions; and convinced of their errors, they renounced idolatry. The re-establishment of the faith of their fathers was inaugurated at a great public meeting, held…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 5 Gather all Israel to Mizpeh - This appears to have been an armed assembly, though probably collected principally for religious and political purposes; but Samuel knew that an unarmed multitude could not safely be convened in the vicinity of the Philistines.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Samuel 7:5-6
Israel drew water and poured it out before the Lord; signifying their humiliation and sorrow for sin. They pour out their hearts in repentance before the Lord. They were free and full in their confession, and fixed in their resolution to cast away from them all their wrong doings. They made a public confession, We have sinned against the Lord; thus giving glory to God, and taking shame to themselves. And if we thus confess our sins, we shall find our God faithful and just to forgive us our sins.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

1 Samuel 7:5 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvai.Yo.merand he saidH559
שְׁמוּאֵ֔לshe.mu.'ElSamuelH8050
קִבְצ֥וּkiv.TzugatherH6908
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
כָּל\־kol-allH3605
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
הַמִּצְפָּ֑תָהha.mitz.Pa.tah<the> Mizpah towardsH4709
וְאֶתְפַּלֵּ֥לve.'et.pa.Lelso I may prayH6419
בַּעַדְכֶ֖םba.'ad.Khemfor youH1157
אֶל\־'el-toH413
יְהוָֽה\׃Yah.wehYahwehH3068

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 1 Samuel 7:5

  • Judges 20:1

    Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beer–sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the Lord in Mizpeh.

  • 1 Samuel 12:23

    Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:

  • 1 Samuel 7:16

    And he went from year to year in circuit to Beth–el, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.

  • 1 Samuel 10:17

    And Samuel called the people together unto the Lord to Mizpeh;

  • 1 Samuel 7:12

    Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben–ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.

  • Joshua 15:38

    And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,

  • Nehemiah 9:1

    Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.

  • 2 Kings 25:23

    And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.

  • Joel 2:16

    Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Gather.
Ne 9:1; Joe 2:16
Mizpeh.
12,16; 10:17; Jos 15:38; Jud 20:1; 2Ki 25:23
I will pray.
12:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • 1 Samuel 7:4

    Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the Lord only.

  • 1 Samuel 7:5

    And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the Lord.

  • 1 Samuel 7:6

    And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the Lord, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.

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1 Samuel 7:5 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y Samuel dijo: Juntad á todo Israel en Mizpa, y yo oraré por vosotros á Jehová.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et Samuel dit: Assemblez tout Israël à Mitspa, et je prierai l’ Éternel pour vous.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und Samuel sprach: Versammelt ganz Israel nach Mizpa, und ich will Jehova für euch bitten.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Dixit autem Samuel: Congregate universum Israël in Masphath, ut orem pro vobis Dominum.