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约书亚记 21:37

基底莫和基底莫的郊野,米法押和米法押的郊野,共四座城。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Mephaath;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Kedemoth;   Merari;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Levite;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Mephaath;   Merarites;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Kedemoth;   Levi;   Mephaath;   Merari;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Joshua, the Book of;   Kedemoth;   Mephaath;   Merarites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Joshua;   Kedemoth;   Mephaath;   Merari, Merarites;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Suburb;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Kedemoth ;   Levites ;   Mephaath ;   Merari, Merarites ;   Refuge, Cities of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ked'emoth;   Meph'a-Ath;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jahaz;   Joshua, Book of;   Kedemoth;   Mephaath;   Merari;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Levi ;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
基 底 莫 和 属 城 的 郊 野 , 米 法 押 和 属 城 的 郊 野 , 共 四 座 城 ;

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

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 2:26 - Kedemoth Joshua 13:18 - Jahaza 1 Chronicles 6:78 - Jahzah Jeremiah 48:21 - Jahazah

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Kedemoth with her suburbs,.... Near to which was a wilderness of that name; see Deuteronomy 2:26;

and Mephaath with her suburbs; of which Deuteronomy 2:26- :; where the two preceding cities are mentioned along with it:

four cities, Joshua 21:35, are not in some ancient copies of the Hebrew Bible, as is noted by the Masorites; but are in some others, as Kimchi owns, and stand in the Targum, in the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, and in a manuscript referred to by Hottinger e; and the same words are to be, found in 1 Chronicles 6:78, and are absolutely necessary to be retained, since without them there would be but eight cities for the Merarites, whereas they are expressly said to be twelve,

Joshua 21:40.

e Thesaur. Philolog. l. 1. c. 2. p. 181, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Merarite cities. Some of these places are not found in the list of Zebulonite cities in Joshua 19:10-16. The text is considered corrupt.


 
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