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213. IMG:content-0786.png:[blocks in formation] Mispeh, the culminating point of the tribe of Benjamin, became the meeting-place of the tribes, the Washington of the Israelite federation. This mountain, nearly 4,000 feet above the level of the sea, on the horizon of Jerusalem, was not made to serve as the site of a great city. On the contrary, it was an excellent spot for those federal diets which were soon to a ume a sacred character. The ark was never established there; but the sofet was induced to make it his habitual residence, and no doubt the political importance of Mispeh had some weight in the providential selection of Jerusalem for such brilliant destinies. Jerusalem is only a league from Mispeh, and from the top of the mountain the little acropolis ( millo ) ble. Renan, Hist. of the People of Israel, I. 302. Mizraim (miz-rā'im). The Hebrew name of Egypt. of the Jebusites on the hill of Sion must have been vis i