Category:Mizpeh

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary.

Mizpah Or Mizpeh, watchtower; the lookout. (1.) A place in Gilead, so named by Laban, who overtook Jacob at this spot (Genesis 31:49) on his return to Palestine from Padan-aram. Here Jacob and Laban set up their memorial cairn of stones. It is the same as Ramath-mizpeh (Joshua 13:26). (2.) A town in Gilead, where Jephthah resided, and where he assumed the command of the Israelites in a time of national danger. Here he made his rash vow; and here his daughter submitted to her mysterious fate. (Judges 10:17; Judges 11:11, Judges 11:34).