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1 Samuel 7

1 Sam. 7:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Samuel
Shmuw'el (Hebrew #8050)
heard of God; Shemuel, the name of three Israelites
KJV usage: Samuel, Shemuel.
Pronounce: sehm-oo-ale'
Origin: from the passive participle of 8085 and 410
said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Gather
qabats (Hebrew #6908)
to grasp, i.e. collect
KJV usage: assemble (selves), gather (bring) (together, selves together, up), heap, resort, X surely, take up.
Pronounce: kaw-bats'
Origin: a primitive root
all Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
to Mizpeh
Mitspeh (Hebrew #4708)
Mitspeh, the name of five places in Palestine
KJV usage: Mizpeh, watch tower. Compare 4709.
Pronounce: mits-peh'
Origin: the same as 4707
, and I will pray
palal (Hebrew #6419)
to judge (officially or mentally); by extension, to intercede, pray
KJV usage: intreat, judge(-ment), (make) pray(-er, -ing), make supplication.
Pronounce: paw-lal'
Origin: a primitive root
for you unto the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
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Israel,
Mizpeh,
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Gather.
Neh. 9:1• 1Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them. (Neh. 9:1)
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Joel 2:16• 16Gather 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. (Joel 2:16)
Mizpeh.
1 Sam. 7:12,16• 12Then 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.
 16And he went from year to year in circuit to Beth-el, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places. (1 Sam. 7:12,16)
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1 Sam. 10:17• 17And Samuel called the people together unto the Lord to Mizpeh; (1 Sam. 10:17)
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Josh. 15:38• 38And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel, (Josh. 15:38)
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Judg. 20:1• 1Then 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. (Judg. 20:1)
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2 Kings 25:23• 23And 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. (2 Kings 25:23)
I will pray.
1 Sam. 12:23• 23Moreover 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 Sam. 12:23)
• “Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, yet My mind could not be toward this people; cast them out of My sight” (Jer. 15:1). Notice the link with Moses. When the people ruined themselves by the worship of the golden calf, they were saved by Moses' pleading (Ex. 32:33). Later, when the priestly order broke down and ruin once more ensued, the people were maintained before God by the intercession of Samuel. (“A Ministry of Intercession” by W.W. Fereday)
• Gathering the people of God is the function of every servant of the Lord who understands his ministry. But beyond this, Samuel is an intercessor; prayer, the fruit of his intimacy with the Lord, characterizes him. (“1 Samuel 7” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray Jehovah for you.