Genesis 31:49

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It was also called Mizpah, because he said, 'May the LORD watch between you and me when we are out of each other’s sight.

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  • Judg 11:29 : 29 Then the Spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah. He passed through Gilead and Manasseh, and he went on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from there he advanced against the Ammonites.
  • 1 Sam 7:5-6 : 5 Then Samuel said, 'Assemble all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray to the LORD on your behalf.' 6 When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day, they fasted and confessed, 'We have sinned against the LORD.' And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.
  • 1 Kgs 15:22 : 22 Then King Asa issued a proclamation to all Judah with no exceptions, and they carried away the stones and timber Baasha had used to fortify Ramah. With these materials King Asa built up Geba in Benjamin and Mizpah.
  • Hos 5:1 : 1 Hear this, O priests; pay attention, O house of Israel; listen, O royal house! For judgment is meant for you, because you have become a snare at Mizpah and a net spread over Tabor.
  • Judg 10:17 : 17 The Ammonites were called together and encamped in Gilead, while the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah.
  • Judg 11:11 : 11 So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him their head and commander. Jephthah repeated all his words before the Lord in Mizpah.

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  • Gen 31:50-53
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    50 If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.'

    51 Laban also said to Jacob, 'Here is the heap, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.

    52 This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this heap to harm you, and you will not pass beyond this heap and this pillar to harm me.

    53 May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.' So Jacob took an oath in the name of the Fear of his father Isaac.

  • Gen 31:47-48
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    47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.

    48 Laban said, 'This heap is a witness between you and me today.' That is why it was called Galeed.

  • Gen 31:42-44
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    42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.

    43 Laban answered Jacob, 'The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or about the children they have borne?

    44 Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us.'

  • 23 As for the promise we have made between the two of us, the LORD is our witness forever.

  • 28 They replied, "We have clearly seen that the LORD has been with you. So we said, 'There should now be an oath between us and you; let us make a covenant with you.'"

  • 15 Look, I am with you, and I will guard you wherever you go. I will bring you back to this land, because I will not leave you until I have done everything I promised you.

  • 5 He said to them, 'I see that your father’s attitude toward me is not as it was before, but the God of my father has been with me.'

  • 27 But Laban said to him, 'If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by experience that the LORD has blessed me because of you.'

  • 19 Laban replied, 'It is better for me to give her to you than to another man. Stay here with me.'

  • 31 Moses said, "Please do not leave us, because you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you will be our eyes.

  • 27 but as a witness between us and you and the generations that follow, that we will worship the LORD at His sanctuary with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and fellowship offerings.’ Then in the future, your descendants will not be able to say to ours, ‘You have no share in the LORD.’

  • 12 Look, my father, see the corner of your robe in my hand! I cut off the corner of your robe but did not kill you. Know and understand that I am not guilty of wrongdoing or rebellion. I have not sinned against you, but you are hunting me down to take my life.

  • 37 You have searched through all my belongings. What have you found that belongs to your household? Place it here in front of my relatives and yours, and let them judge between us.

  • Gen 31:2-3
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    2 Jacob noticed that Laban’s attitude toward him was no longer the same as it had been before.

    3 Then the LORD said to Jacob, 'Return to the land of your ancestors and to your family, and I will be with you.'

  • Gen 28:20-21
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    20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying, 'If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey I am taking, and give me food to eat and clothes to wear,

    21 'so that I return safely to my father’s house, then the Lord will be my God.'

  • Gen 31:12-14
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    12 He said, 'Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, and spotted, because I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.

    13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now leave this land immediately and return to the land of your birth.'

    14 Then Rachel and Leah replied to him, 'Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?

  • 10 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, 'The Lord is our witness; we will certainly do as you say.'

  • 34 And the Reubenites and the Gadites named the altar 'A Witness Between Us that the LORD is God.'

  • 41 'You will be released from my oath if you go to my family and they refuse to give her to you. Then you will be free from my oath.'

  • 34 Laban said, 'Very well, let it be as you have said.'

  • 45 When your brother's anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him, I will send for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?'

  • 49 Now if you are willing to show kindness and faithfulness to my master, tell me. If not, tell me, so that I may turn to the right or to the left.

  • 9 I will be a guarantee for him; you can hold me personally responsible. If I do not bring him back to you and set him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life.

  • Gen 31:30-32
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    30 Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father’s household. But why did you steal my gods?

    31 Jacob answered Laban, 'I was afraid, because I thought you would take your daughters away from me by force.

    32 But if you find anyone who has your gods, that person shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself whether anything of yours is here with me; and if so, take it.' Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.

  • 30 He replied, 'Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well.'

  • 32 For your servant took responsibility for the boy before my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.'

  • 25 Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban and his relatives camped in the hill country of Gilead.

  • 13 So Hagar called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, 'You are the God who sees me,' for she said, 'Have I truly seen the One who sees me here?'

  • 34 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I could not bear to see the misery that would come upon my father.

  • 14 Then Laban said to him, 'Surely you are my own flesh and blood.' Jacob stayed with him for a month.

  • 9 He thought, 'If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp that is left will escape.'