³⁸ Dilean, Mizpah, ^(A)Joktheel,

^7 (A)He killed ten thousand Edomites in ^(B)the Valley of Salt, and took ^[a]Sela by war, ^(C)and called its name Joktheel to this day.

Saul Proclaimed King

¹⁷ Then Samuel called the people together ^(A)to the Lord ^(B)at Mizpah,

¹⁶ He went from year to year on a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah, and judged Israel in all those places.

⁵ And Samuel said, ^(A)“Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and ^(B)I will pray to the Lord for you.” ⁶ So they gathered together at Mizpah, ^(C)drew water, and poured it out before the Lord. And they ^(D)fasted that day, and said there, ^(E)“We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel judged the children of Israel at Mizpah.

⁵ The children of Israel said, “Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who did not come up with the assembly to the Lord?” ^(A)For they had made a great oath concerning anyone who had not come up to the Lord at Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”

Israel’s War with the Benjamites

20 So ^(A)all the children of Israel came out, from ^(B)Dan to ^(C)Beersheba, as well as from the land of Gilead, and the congregation gathered together as one man before the Lord ^(D)at Mizpah.

⁴⁸ And Laban said, ^(A)“This heap is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore its name was called Galeed, ⁴⁹ also ^(B)Mizpah,^[a] because he said, “May the Lord watch between you and me when we are absent one from another.