Genesis 31:49
They also named the place Mizpah, which sounds like the Hebrew word that means ‘watchtower’, because Laban said, “We will ask Yahweh to watch you and me while we are separated from each other, so that we do not try to harm each other.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
In Context
Cross References
Judges 11:11So Jephthah went with them back to the Gilead region, and the people appointed him to be their leader and the commander of their army. And Jephthah solemnly promised to Yahweh there at Mizpah to serve him well.
1 Samuel 7:5Then Samuel told them, “All you Israeli people must gather with me at Mizpah. Then I will pray to Yahweh for you.”
Hosea 5:1“Listen, you priests! And you other Israeli people, you also pay attention! And you who are members of the king’s family, you also need to listen, because I am going to judge you! Your worshiping idols has been like [MET] a trap for the people at Mizpah town; it has been like [MET] a net spread out to catch people at Tabor Mountain.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 31:44-55
Jacob's Covenant with Laban. ( b. c. 1739.) 43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born? 44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. 45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. 46 And Jacob said unto his… Read the whole commentary →