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And Samuelשְׁמוּאֵלsummonedוַיַּצְעֵקthe peopleאֶת הָעָםtoאֶלYHWHיְהוָהat Mizpah.הַמִּצְפָּה
1 Samuel 10:17
Study it in the app“And Samuel summoned the people to YHWH at Mizpah.”
With the Hebrew beneath
1 Samuel 10:17, word by word
- And Samuelשְׁמוּאֵלshemuel
Samuel
Samuel, the name of two persons. One was a chief of the tribe of Simeon (Numbers 34:20). The best known is the son of Elkanah and Hannah, prophet and last judge of Israel, who anointed the kings Saul and David. The name sounds like "heard by El" or "name of El."
Where else “shemuel” appears- summonedיַּצְעֵקyatsek
summon
To be gathered for war.
Where else “yatsek” appears- the peopleעָםam
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appears- YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears- at Mizpahמִּצְפָּהmitspa
Mizpah
See it on the mapWhere else “mitspa” appears
Places in this verse
Mizpah ?
Today: possibly Tell en-Nasbeh, West Bank
The name of several places; the main one was north of Jerusalem in Benjamin, and its exact site is not certain.
There Samuel gathered Israel, who confessed, “We have sinned against YHWH” (1 Sam 7:5-6), and there he presented Saul as king (1 Sam 10:17-24).
The context
16And Saul said to his uncle, “He told us plainly that the donkeys had been found.” But the matter of the kingship, of which Samuel had spoken, he did not tell him.
17 · This verse (above)
18And he said to the sons of Israel, “Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel: ‘I brought up Israel from Egypt and delivered you from the hand of Egypt and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.’