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Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to the LORD at Mizpah.
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Verse 1. Bersabee, from the northern to the southern extremity of the land, ( Calmet.) west of the Jordan, as Galaad denotes that on the east, belonging to Israel. Only the Benjamites and the town of Jabes declined attending. Bible.—Maspha, on the confines of the tribes of Juda and Benjamin. Here the people frequently assembled; and it was a place of prayer, 1 Maccabees 3:46. It is thought that an altar of the Lord had been erected. Calmet.—Maspha denotes, “a height or watch-tower,” ( Bible.) in Silo. Mas. in Josue xviii. 26.
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