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Valley of Mizpah

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The valley Joshua 11:8 names with great Sidon and Misrephoth Maim. Of the attack by the waters of Merom, 11:7–8 says, “The LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpah eastward. They struck them until they left them no one remaining.” This collection keeps it apart from the land of Mizpah of 11:3 and does not decide whether they are the same place.

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JOS 11:6–9, engwebp
⁶The LORD said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”
⁷So Joshua came suddenly, with all the warriors, against them by the waters of Merom, and attacked them.
⁸The LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpah eastward. They struck them until they left them no one remaining.
⁹Joshua did to them as the LORD told him. He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
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Machine comparison on 2026-10-07: the wording raised none of the 3 rules against the passages this entry cites. No person has read it.

Unresolved interpretation: The land of Mizpah and the valley of Mizpah

Joshua 11:3 names, among those to whom Jabin king of Hazor sent, “the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah”.
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- JOS 11:1–5, engwebp
  ¹When Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph,
  ²and to the kings who were on the north, in the hill country, in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west,
  ³to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
  ⁴They went out, they and all their armies with them, many people, even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.
  ⁵All these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.
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Joshua 11:8 has the chase after the attack by the waters of Merom go “to the valley of Mizpah eastward”. The text does not say whether this valley is in the land of Mizpah of 11:3.
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- JOS 11:6–9, engwebp
  ⁶The LORD said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”
  ⁷So Joshua came suddenly, with all the warriors, against them by the waters of Merom, and attacked them.
  ⁸The LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpah eastward. They struck them until they left them no one remaining.
  ⁹Joshua did to them as the LORD told him. He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
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The same chapter gives the name Mizpah to the land where the Hivite under Hermon is (11:3) and to the valley the chase reached eastward (11:8), and does not say they are one place. This collection records the land of Mizpah and the valley of Mizpah separately and does not decide whether they are the same place.

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Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Valley of Mizpeh” by name and 1 shared verse. The centre of the area given for its leading identification, about 10 km around Mizpah 2 (confidence 1000 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event.

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about 10 km around Mizpah 2
OpenBible.info confidence 1000 of 1000 (current scholarship)
33.4, 35.85
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Valley of Mizpeh” (CC BY 4.0)

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Narrated location (1) — The sudden attack by the waters of Merom, and the chase to great Sidon

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Entry: Valley of Mizpah (place-valley-of-mizpah)
Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/valley-of-mizpah
Current wording: The valley Joshua 11:8 names with great Sidon and Misrephoth Maim. Of the attack by the waters of Merom, 11:7–8 says, “The LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpah eastward. They struck them until they left them no one remaining.” This collection keeps it apart from the land of Mizpah of 11:3 and does not decide whether they are the same place.
Cited evidence: JOS 11:6–9, engwebp
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