1 Samuel 7:6

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And they gathered together to Mispah, and drewe water, and poured it out before the Lorde, and fasted the same day, and sayd there: We haue sinned against the Lorde. And Samuel iudged the children of Israel in Mispah.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּקָּבְצ֣וּ הַ֠מִּצְפָּתָה וַיִּֽשְׁאֲבוּ־מַ֜יִם וֽ͏ַיִּשְׁפְּכ֣וּ ׀ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֗ה וַיָּצ֙וּמוּ֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא וַיֹּ֣אמְרוּ שָׁ֔ם חָטָ֖אנוּ לַיהוָ֑ה וַיִּשְׁפֹּ֧ט שְׁמוּאֵ֛ל אֶת־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בַּמִּצְפָּֽה׃

Transliteration

And wayyiqqābṣû the-miṣpātâ and wayyišʾăbû-water and wayyišpĕkû before YHWH and wayyāṣûmû in-the-day the-that and wayyōʾmĕrû there ḥāṭāʾnû to-YHWH and wayyišpōṭ šĕmûʾēl ʾet-sons of yiśrāʾēl in-the-miṣpâ.

Grammar Details

• *wayyiqqābṣû*: waw-consecutive + Niphal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - and they gathered themselves
• *wayyišʾăbû*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - and they drew
• *wayyišpĕkû*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - and they poured out
• *wayyāṣûmû*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - and they fasted
• *wayyōʾmĕrû*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - and they said
• *ḥāṭāʾnû*: Qal perfect 1st person plural - we have sinned
• *wayyišpōṭ*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he judged

Word Meanings

• *wayyiqqābṣû*: gathered themselves/assembled/came together
• *wayyišʾăbû*: drew/pumped/fetched
• *wayyišpĕkû*: poured out/spilled/shed
• *wayyāṣûmû*: fasted/abstained from food
• *ḥāṭāʾnû*: we have sinned/we have missed the mark/we have transgressed
• *wayyišpōṭ*: judged/governed/vindicated/decided for

Referenced Verses

• Judg 10:10 : 10 And the children of Israel cryed vnto ye Lord, saying: We haue sinned against thee, for we haue forsaken our owne God, and haue carued Baalim.
• 1 Sam 1:15 : 15 Hanna aunswered, and sayde, Not so my Lord: I am a woman of a sorowful hearte, I haue drunke neither wine nor strong drincke, but haue powred out my soule before the Lorde:
• 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 For we must nedes dye, and are as wather spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered vp againe: Neither doth God spare any person, yet doth he appoynt meanes that his banished be not vtterly expelled from him.
• Ps 106:6 : 6 We haue sinned with our fathers: we haue done amisse and dealt wickedly.
• Lam 2:18-19 : 18 Their heart cryed vnto the Lorde, O thou citie of the daughter Sion: let thy teares runne downe like a riuer day and night, rest not, and let not the apple of thyne eye leaue of. 19 Stand vp, and make thy prayer in the first watche of the night, powre out thine heart like water before the Lord: lift vp thyne handes for the liues of thy young chyldren that dye of hunger in the streetes.
• Joel 2:12 : 12 But nowe saith ye Lord, turne you vnto me with all your heartes, with fasting, with weepyng, and with mournyng.
• Ps 62:8 : 8 O ye people, put your trust in hym alway: powre out your heartes before him, for the Lorde is our hope. Selah.
• Luke 15:18 : 18 I wyll aryse, and go to my father, and wyll say vnto hym: Father, I haue sinned agaynst heauen, and before thee,
• 1 Kgs 8:47 : 47 Yet if they turne againe vnto their heartes in the lande of them that caryed them away captiues, & returne and pray vnto thee in the lande of their enemies, saying, we haue sinned, we haue done wickely, and haue committed vngodlynesse:
• 2 Chr 20:3 : 3 And Iehosaphat feared, & set him selfe to seke the Lorde: and proclaymed fasting throughout all Iuda.
• Ezra 8:21-23 : 21 And euen there at the water beside Ahaua I proclaymed a fast, that we might humble our selues before our God, and seke of hym a right way for vs, and for our children, and for all our substaunce. 22 For I was ashamed to require of the king souldiers and horsemen, to helpe vs against the enemie in the way: for we had spoken vnto the king, saying: The hande of our God is vpon all them that seke him in goodnesse, & his power and wrath is against all them that forsake hym. 23 So we fasted, and besought our God for this, and he was entreated of vs.
• Ezra 9:5-9 : 5 And about the euening sacrifice I arose vp from my heauinesse, and rent my clothes and my rayment, and fell vpon my knees, and spread out my handes vnto the Lorde my God, 6 And sayde: My God, I am ashamed, and dare not lift vp myne eyes vnto thee my God: for our wickednesses are growen ouer our head, and our trespasse is waxed great vnto the heauen. 7 Since the time of our fathers haue we ben in great trespasse vnto this day, and because of our wickednesses haue we and our kinges and our priestes ben deliuered into the hande of the kinges of the nations, vnto the sworde, into captiuitie, into a spoyle, and into confusion of face, as it is to see this day. 8 And nowe for a litle space grace hath ben shewed from the Lorde our God, in causing a remnaunt to escape, and in geuing vs a nayle in his holy place, that our God may light our eyes, and geue vs a litle lyfe to take breath in our bondage: 9 For we were bondmen, and yet our God hath not forsaken vs in our bondage, but hath enclined mercie vnto vs in the sight of the king of Persia, to geue vs lyfe to set vp the house of our God, and to redresse the desolation therof, and to geue vs a wall in Iuda and Hierusalem. 10 And nowe O our God, what shall we say after this? for we haue forsaken thy commaundementes,
• Neh 9:1-3 : 1 In the twentie and fourth day of this moneth, came the children of Israel together againe, with fasting, and sackeclothes, and earth vpon them, 2 And they that were of the seede of Israel, were separated from all the straunge children, and stoode & knowledged their sinnes, & the wickednes of their fathers: 3 And stoode vp in their place, & read in the booke of the law of the Lorde their God foure times on the day, and they knowledged and worshipped the Lord their God foure times on the day.
• Neh 9:27 : 27 Therefore thou gauest them ouer into the hand of their enemies that vexed them: And in the time of their trouble whe they cryed vnto thee thou heardest them from heauen, and through thy great mercie thou gauest them sauiours which helped them out of the hande of their enemies.
• Job 16:20 : 20 My friendes geue me many wordes to scorne, and myne eye powreth out teares vnto God.
• Job 33:27 : 27 A respect hath he vnto men, let man then say, I haue offended, I did vnrighteously, & it hath done me no good:
• Job 40:4 : 4 Beholde, I am vyle, what shall I aunswere thee, therefore I wyll laye my hande vpon my mouth.
• Job 42:6 : 6 Wherefore I geue myne owne selfe the blame, and take repentaunce in the dust and asshes.
• Ps 6:6 : 6 I am weerie of my groning: I washe my bed euery nyght, and I water my coutche with my teares.
• Ps 38:3-8 : 3 There is no helath in my flesh through thy displeasure: neither is there any rest in my bones by reason of my sinne. 4 For my manyfolde wickednes is gone ouer my head: and like a sore burthen is to heauie for me to beare. 5 My woundes stinke and are corrupt: through my foolishnes. 6 I am become crooked, and am exceedingly pulled downe: I go a mourning all the day long. 7 For my loynes are filled with heate: and there is no whole part in my body. 8 I am feeble and sore smitten: I haue rored for the very disquietnesse of my heart.
• Ps 42:3 : 3 My teares haue ben my meate day and nyght: whyle they dayly say vnto me where is nowe thy God.
• Jonah 3:1-9 : 1 And the worde of the Lorde came vnto Ionas the second time, saying: 2 Aryse, and go to Niniue that great citie, and preache against it the preaching which I speake vnto thee. 3 So Ionas arose, and went to Niniue according to the word of the Lord (Niniue was a great citie and excellent, of three dayes iourney.) 4 And Ionas began to enter into the citie a dayes iourney, and he cryed & saide: Yet fourtie dayes, & Niniue shalbe destroyed. 5 And the men of Niniue beleued God, and proclaymed a fast, and put on sackecloth from the greatest of them to the leaste of them. 6 And worde came vnto the king of Niniue: which arose from his throne, and put of his robe, and couered him selfe with sackcloth, & sate downe in asshes. 7 And he caused a cryer to crye, and say through the citie by the counsell of the king & his nobles, Let neither man nor beast, bullocke nor sheepe, taste ought at all, neither feede, nor drinke water. 8 And let both man & beast put on sackcloth, and crye mightyly vnto God: yea let euery man turne from his euill way, and from the wickednesse that is in his handes. 9 Who can tel whether God wyl turne and be moued with repentaunce, and turne from his fierce wrath, that we perishe not? 10 And God sawe their workes, that they turned from their euil wayes, and he repented of the euill that he saide he woulde do vnto them, and did it not.
• Lev 26:40 : 40 And they shal confesse their misdeedes and the misdeedes of their fathers, for their trespasse which they haue trespassed agaynst me, and for that also that they haue walked contrary vnto me.
• Judg 3:10 : 10 And the spirite of the Lorde came vpon him, and he iudged Israel, & went out to warre: And the Lorde deliuered Chusan Risathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hande, and his hande preuayled against Chusan Risathaim.
• Lam 3:49 : 49 Myne eyes runne and cannot ceasse, for there is no rest:
• Ezek 20:4 : 4 Wylt thou not iudge them sonne of man, wylt thou not iudge them? cause them to vnderstande the abhominations of their fathers.
• Dan 9:3-5 : 3 And I turned my face vnto the Lord God, and sought by prayer and supplication, with fasting, sackcloth, and asshes. 4 I prayed vnto the Lorde my God, & made my confession, saying. O Lorde God, great and feare full, which kepeth couenaunt and mercie with them that loue him and kepe his commaundementes: 5 We haue sinned and haue committed iniquitie, and haue done wickedly, yea we haue rebelled, & haue departed from thy preceptes, & from thy iudgementes.
• Ps 119:136 : 136 Ryuers of waters gushe out of myne eyes: because men kepe not thy lawe.
• Jer 3:13-14 : 13 But on this condition, that thou know thy great blasphemie, namely that thou hast vnfaithfully forsaken the Lord thy God, and hast made thy selfe partaker of straunge gods vnder all greene trees, and hast had no wyll to heare my voyce, saith the Lorde. 14 O ye disobedient childre, turne againe saith the Lorde, and I wyll be maryed with you: for I wyll take one out of the citie, and two out of one generation from among you, and bryng you into Sion,
• Jer 9:1 : 1 O who wyll geue my head water inough, and a wel of teares for mine eyes, that I may weepe night and day for the slaughter of my people?
• Jer 31:19 : 19 Yea assoone as thou turnest me, I shall refourme my selfe, and when I vnderstande, I shall smite vpon my thygh: For veryly I haue committed shamefull thynges: for I haue borne the reproofe and confusion of my youth.
• Lam 2:11 : 11 Mine eyes begin to fayle me through weeping, my body is disquieted, my liuer is powred vpon the earth for the great hurt of the daughter of my people, seeing the chyldren and babes dyd swowne in the streetes of the citie.