Samuel said, "Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray for you to the Lord."
KJV
And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the LORD.
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And Samuel said, gather all Israel to Mizpeh,.... Not Mizpeh in Gilead, on the other side Jordan, but a city which lay on the borders of Judah and Benjamin, where the tribes met on the account of the Levite's concubine,
Jdg 20:1
. This order Samuel gave by messengers sent to the several tribes, or the heads of them, to meet him at this place:
and I will pray for you unto the Lord; no doubt he prayed for them privately, that the reformation begun might be carried on, and appear to be sincere, and hearty, and general, and universal; but he was desirous that they might appear in a body, and join with him in public prayer for their spiritual and temporal welfare; that they might have true repentance for their sins, reform from them, and have remission of them, and be delivered out of the hands of their enemies.
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