约书亚记 21:16

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

亞因和亞因的郊野，淤他和淤他的郊野，伯．示麥和伯．示麥的郊野，共九座城，都是從這兩個支派分出來的。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
亚 因 和 属 城 的 郊 野 ， 淤 他 和 属 城 的 郊 野 ， 伯 示 麦 和 属 城 的 郊 野 ， 共 九 座 城 ， 都 是 从 这 二 支 派 中 分 出 来 的 。

Contextual Overview

⁹ These are the names of the towns that came from the lands of Judah and Simeon. ¹⁰ The first choice of towns was given to the Kohath family groups of the Levites. ¹¹ They gave them Kiriath Arba, also called Hebron, and all its pastures in the mountains of Judah. (Arba was the father of Anak.) ¹² But the fields and the villages around Kiriath Arba had been given to Caleb son of Jephunneh. ¹³ So they gave the city of Hebron to the descendants of Aaron (Hebron was a city of safety). They also gave them the towns of Libnah, ¹⁴ Jattir, Eshtemoa, ¹⁵ Holon, Debir, ¹⁶ Ain, Juttah, and Beth Shemesh, and all the pastures around them. Nine towns were given from these two tribes. ¹⁷ They also gave the people of Aaron these cities that belonged to the tribe of Benjamin: Gibeon, Geba, ¹⁸ Anathoth, and Almon. They gave them these four towns and the pastures around them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ain: Joshua 15:42, 1 Chronicles 6:59, Ashan

Juttah: Eusebius says Juttah was a great town 18 miles south from Eleutheropolis. Joshua 15:55

Bethshemesh: Joshua 15:10, 1 Samuel 6:9, 1 Samuel 6:12, 1 Chronicles 6:59

Reciprocal: Joshua 19:22 - Bethshemesh Joshua 19:41 - Irshemesh 2 Kings 14:11 - Bethshemesh 1 Chronicles 6:60 - thirteen cities 2 Chronicles 25:21 - Bethshemesh

Cross-References

Genesis 27:38
But Esau continued, "Do you have only one blessing, Father? Bless me, too, Father!" Then Esau began to cry out loud.

Genesis 29:11
Then Jacob kissed Rachel and cried.

Genesis 44:34
I cannot go back to my father if the boy is not with me. I couldn't stand to see my father that sad."

Judges 2:4
After the angel gave Israel this message from the Lord , they cried loudly.

Ruth 1:9
May the Lord give you another happy home and a new husband." When Naomi kissed the women good-bye, they began to cry out loud.

1 Samuel 24:16
When David finished saying these words, Saul asked, "Is that your voice, David my son?" And he cried loudly.

1 Samuel 30:4
Then David and his army cried loudly until they were too weak to cry anymore.

1 Kings 3:26
The real mother of the living child was full of love for her son. So she said to the king, "Please, my master, don't kill him! Give the baby to her!" But the other woman said, "Neither of us will have him. Cut him into two pieces!"

Esther 8:6
I could not stand to see that terrible thing happen to my people. I could not stand to see my family killed."

Isaiah 49:15
The Lord answers, "Can a woman forget the baby she nurses? Can she feel no kindness for the child to which she gave birth? Even if she could forget her children, I will not forget you.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Ain with her suburbs,.... :-;

and Juttah with her suburbs; :-;

[and] Bethshemesh with her suburbs; which is not mentioned among the cities of Judah, Joshua 15:21; only as in the borders of it,

Joshua 21:10; and perhaps is the same Bethshemesh to which the ark was directed by the Philistines from Ashdod, 1 Samuel 6:9; in it formerly was a temple dedicated to the sun, from whence it had its name:

nine cities out of those two tribes; and they seem all but one, which is Ain, to be of the tribe of Judah, and that originally belonged to it; and as that tribe had the largest number of cities in its lot, the more were given out of it to the Levites, according to a rule prescribed, Numbers 35:8.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The thirteen priestly cities (see the marginal references) were all in the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin. Thus, as Calvin remarks, God so overruled it that the priestly families were placed upon the spot which He had determined before hand to choose as the site of His temple.