Monday, February 02, 2009

Mitzpah? The Biblical Jockstrap

Mizpah ("watch-tower; the look-out") was a city of Benjamin...It was some 4 miles north-west of Jerusalem, and was situated on the loftiest hill in the neighbourhood, some 600 feet above the plain of Gibeon...When the Levite's concubine was raped by the men of Gibeah, the sons of Israel met at Mizpah of Benjamin, where they decided to attack the men of Benjamin for this grievous sin. After the debacle at Aphek, where they lost the ark to the Philistines, Samuel gathered all Israel to Mizpah to offer sacrifices to the Lord and ask Him to forgive their sin...Samuel gathered the people of Israel to Mizpah for the Lord to identify their first king. There, Saul was chosen by lot from all the tribes and families of Israel. After the Babylonians had destroyed Jerusalem, they appointed Gedaliah governor in Mizpah over the remaining residents...The prophet Jeremiah came to Mizpah from Ramah, where the Babylonians had released him...Judas Machabeus, preparing for war with the Syrians, gathered his men "to Maspha, over against Jerusalem: for in Maspha was a place of prayer heretofore in Israel".



So why call a jock-strap "Mizpah"?



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