⁶ So they gathered at ^(A)Mizpah ^(B)and drew water and poured it out before the Lord ^(C)and fasted on that day and said there, ^(D)“We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel judged the people of Israel at Mizpah.

The People of Israel Confess Their Sin

9 Now on the twenty-fourth day of ^(A)this month the people of Israel were assembled ^(B)with fasting ^(C)and in sackcloth, ^(D)and with earth on their heads.

^2 (A)And the Israelites^[a] separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.