1 Samuel 10:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷And Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to Mizpeh;

1 Samuel 10:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Judges 20:1
Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.
1 Samuel 7:5-6
And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the LORD. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-27)

Saul’s nomination to the throne is here made public, in a general assembly of the elders of Israel, the representatives of their respective tribes at Mizpeh. It is probable that this convention of the states was called as soon as conveniently it might, after Saul was anointed, for, if there must be a change in their government, the sooner the better: it might be of bad consequence to be long in th…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17-25. Samuel called the people together ... at Mizpeh--a shaft-like hill near Hebron, five hundred feet in height. The national assemblies of the Israelites were held there. A day having been appointed for the election of a king, Samuel, after having charged the people with a rejection of God’s institution and a superseding of it by one of their own, proceeded to the nomination of the new monarch…