BUG? Questionable location for Mizpah in Hosea 5:1

Allen Browne
Allen Browne Member Posts: 1,897 ✭✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

In Hosea 5:1, if you right-click Mizpah and choose Bible Facts, you are offered Ramoth-gilead for Bible Facts. There were several places named Mizpah, but this is almost certainly the wrong identification.

Examples:

  • Several towns in Palestine had the name Mizpah, but the one mentioned here probably is the most important one, the Mizpah in Benjamin located some ten kilometers north of Jerusalem.
    Duane A. Garrett, Hosea, Joel, vol. 19A, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1997), 143.
  • The reference might also be to Mizpah in Gilead, but here this would be less likely for Hosea ...
    Hans Walter Wolff, Hosea: a Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Hosea, Hermeneia—a Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1974), 98.
  • Probably, given Hosea’s penchant for historic references, it is the Mizpah in Benjamin ...
    David A. Hubbard, Hosea: An Introduction and Commentary, vol. 24, Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1989), 122.
  • The best known is Mizpah of Benjamin, where Samuel served as judge (1 Sam 7:6, 16) and Saul was anointed king (1 Sam 10:17). Any one, however, would do for the purposes of the oracle ...
    Douglas Stuart, Hosea–Jonah, vol. 31, Word Biblical Commentary (Dallas: Word, Incorporated, 2002), 91.
  • Mizpah is probably the Mizpah of Benjamin, nine miles north of Jerusalem ...
    Lloyd J. Ogilvie and Lloyd J. Ogilvie, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, vol. 22, The Preacher’s Commentary Series (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Inc, 1990), 101.

Comments

  • Lee
    Lee Member Posts: 2,714 ✭✭✭

    You bring up an excellent point! Thanks for educating me. [Y]

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