1 Samuel 7:6
When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the Lord. On that day they fasted, and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.
Note Or governed or led; similarly in verses 15, 16, and 17
And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the Lord, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.
They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before the Lord, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against the Lord.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.
And they gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Jehovah, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against Jehovah. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- drew water
- Grotius says, that the pouring out of water means the shedding of tears; and the Targum reads, "And they poured out their hearts in penitence, as waters, before the Lord." Others suppose that it was done emblematically, to represent the contrition of their hearts, and their desire to wash away their past offences. But some learned men conceive that it was poured out as a libation, in token of joy, after they had fasted and confessed their sin, as they were wont to do in the feast of tabernacles. (See note on Nu. 29:35.)
- 1 Samuel 1:15; 2 Samuel 14:14; Job 16:20; Psalm 6:6; Psalm 42:3; Psalm 119:136; Jeremiah 9:1; Lamentations 2:11, 18; Lamentations 3:49
- fasted
- 2 Chronicles 20:3; Ezra 8:21–23; Nehemiah 9:1–3; Daniel 9:3–5; Joel 2:12; Jonah 3:1–10
- We have sinned
- Leviticus 26:40; Judges 10:10; 1 Kings 8:47; Ezra 9:5–10; Job 33:27; Job 40:4; Job 42:6; Psalm 38:3–8; Psalm 106:6; Jeremiah 3:13, 14; Jeremiah 31:19; Luke 15:18
- judged
- Judges 3:10; Nehemiah 9:27; Ezekiel 20:4