1 Samuel 7:5

5 Then Samuel said, “Assemble all Israel at Mizpah, and I will intercede with the LORD for you.”

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1 Samuel 7:5 in Other Translations

KJV

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

ESV

5 Then Samuel said, "Gather all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray to the LORD for you."

NLT

5 Then Samuel told them, “Gather all of Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the LORD for you.”

MSG

5 Next Samuel said, "Get everybody together at Mizpah and I'll pray for you."

CSB

5 Samuel said, "Gather all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord on your behalf."

1 Samuel 7:5 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 7:5

And Samuel said, gather all Israel to Mizpeh
Not Mizpeh in Gilead, on the other side Jordan, but a city which lay on the borders of Judah and Benjamin, where the tribes met on the account of the Levite's concubine, ( Judges 20:1 ) . This order Samuel gave by messengers sent to the several tribes, or the heads of them, to meet him at this place:

and I will pray for you unto the Lord;
no doubt he prayed for them privately, that the reformation begun might be carried on, and appear to be sincere, and hearty, and general, and universal; but he was desirous that they might appear in a body, and join with him in public prayer for their spiritual and temporal welfare; that they might have true repentance for their sins, reform from them, and have remission of them, and be delivered out of the hands of their enemies.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

1 Samuel 7:5 In-Context

3 So Samuel said to all the Israelites, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths and commit yourselves to the LORD and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

4 So the Israelites put away their Baals and Ashtoreths, and served the LORD only.

5 Then Samuel said, “Assemble all Israel at Mizpah, and I will intercede with the LORD for you.”

6 When they had assembled at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day they fasted and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the LORD.” Now Samuel was serving as leader of Israel at Mizpah.

7 When the Philistines heard that Israel had assembled at Mizpah, the rulers of the Philistines came up to attack them. When the Israelites heard of it, they were afraid because of the Philistines.

Cross References 3

1. S 1 Samuel 1:20; Psalms 99:6; Jeremiah 15:1
2. S Joshua 11:3; Judges 21:5; 1 Samuel 10:17; Judges 20:1
3. S ver 8; S Genesis 20:7; S Deuteronomy 9:19