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1 Chronicles 6:58

Hilen with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Hilen;   Levites;   Priest;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Priests;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Aaronites;   Genealogy;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Debir (1);   Hilen;   Holon;   Juttah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hilen;   Holon;   Jarmuth;   Kohathites;   Village;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Debir;   En-Gannim;   Hilen;   Holon;   Kohath, Kohathites;   Priests and Levites;   Ramoth;   Suburb;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Debir ;   Gershom ;   Hilen ;   Kohath, Kohathites ;   Merari, Merarites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Dehir;   Smith Bible Dictionary - De'bir;   Hi'len;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Debir (2);   Hilen;   Holon;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Asylum;   Daberath;   Kirjath-Sepher;   Levi ;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Hilen and its pasturelands, Debir and its pasturelands,
Hebrew Names Version
and Hilen with its suburbs, Devir with its suburbs,
King James Version
And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs,
English Standard Version
Hilen with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands,
New Century Version
Hilen, Debir,
New English Translation
Hilez and its pasturelands, Debir and its pasturelands,
New American Standard Bible
Hilen with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,
World English Bible
and Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs,
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Hilen with her suburbes, and Debir with her suburbes,
Legacy Standard Bible
Hilen with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,
Berean Standard Bible
Hilen, Debir,
Complete Jewish Bible
Ramot with the surrounding open land and ‘Anem with the surrounding open land;
Darby Translation
and Hilen and its suburbs, Debir and its suburbs,
Easy-to-Read Version
Hilen, Debir,
George Lamsa Translation
Debir with its suburbs, Ashan with its suburbs,
Lexham English Bible
Hilen with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands,
Literal Translation
and Hilen and its open lands; Debir and its open lands;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Hilen, Debir,
American Standard Version
and Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs,
Bible in Basic English
And Hilen with its outskirts, Debir with its outskirts,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Hilen with her suburbes, and Dabir with her suburbes,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and Ramoth with the open land about it, and Anem with the open land about it;
King James Version (1611)
And Hilen with her suburbes, Debir with her suburbes,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and Jethar and her suburbs, and Dabir and her suburbs,
English Revised Version
and Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
with hise subarbis, and Jether, and Escamo, with her subarbis, but also Helon, and Dabir, with her subarbis; also thei yauen Asan,
Update Bible Version
and Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs,
Webster's Bible Translation
And Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs,
New King James Version
Hilen Joshua 21:15">[fn] with its common-lands, Debir with its common-lands,
New Living Translation
Holon, Debir,
New Life Bible
Hilen with its fields, Debir with its fields,
New Revised Standard
Hilen with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and Hilen with her pasture lands, Debir, with her pasture lands;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jether and Esthemo, with their suburbs, and Helon, and Dabir with their suburbs:
Revised Standard Version
Hilen with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,
Young's Literal Translation
and Hilen and its suburbs, Debir and its suburbs,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Hilen with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,

Contextual Overview

54Now these are their settlements according to their camps within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the first allocation by lot) 55to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasture land; 56but the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 57To the sons of Aaron they gave the following cities of refuge: Hebron, Libnah with its pasture lands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasture lands, 58Hilen with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,59Ashan with its pasture lands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands; 60and from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba, Alemeth, and Anathoth, with their pasture lands. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities. 61Then to the rest of the sons of Kohath were given ten cities by lot from the family of the tribe [of Ephraim and of Dan and], from the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh. 62To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, were given thirteen cities from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and [the other half of] Manasseh in Bashan. 63To the sons of Merari were given twelve cities by lot, according to their families, from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hilen: i.e. fortress, [Strong's H2432], or, Holon. Joshua 15:51, Joshua 21:15, This variation simply arises from the introduction of a י yood, and a change of the vowel points; Holon being written חלן [Strong's H2473], and Hilen חילן [Strong's H2432]. Joshua 15:51, Joshua 21:15, Holon

Debir: Joshua 10:3, Joshua 10:38, Joshua 12:13, Joshua 15:49

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The writer evidently had before him Joshua 21:0, which he followed, as to its matter, closely. In some cases he perhaps modernised the ancient names (1 Chronicles 6:58, 1 Chronicles 6:60, 1 Chronicles 6:72, etc.); in a few he substituted for the old an entirely new name, the modern apellation, probably, of the ancient site 1 Chronicles 6:70, 1 Chronicles 6:77. At one time, it would seem, his intention was to give the cities of the priests only, and to content himself with stating the mere number of the rest. His account of the matter was then brought to a conclusion, and summed up, in 1 Chronicles 6:64. But, afterward, either he or a later writer thought it best to add to the list of the priestly cities the information contained in Judges as to those which were not priestly, but merely Levitical. The passage 1 Chronicles 6:65-81 was then added.

The entire account has suffered much from corruption. In the first list two names, those of Juttah and Gideon, have dropped out. It is necessary to restore them in order to complete the number of thirteen cities 1 Chronicles 6:60. In the second list 1 Chronicles 6:67-70 there is likewise an omission of two cities, Eltekeh and Gibbethon, which are wanted to make up the number ten 1 Chronicles 6:61. The third list is complete, though some of the names are very different from these of Joshua. In the fourth, two names are again wanting, those of Jokneam and Kartah.

1 Chronicles 6:61

Unto the sons of Kohath which were left - i. e. to such of them as were not priests.

Out of the half tribe ... ten cities - The half tribe furnished two cities only (1 Chronicles 6:70, and compare Joshua 21:25). It is evident therefore that something has fallen out. We may supply from Joshua the words “out of Ephraim and out of Dan, and” before “out of the half tribe.”

1 Chronicles 6:77

Unto the rest of the children of Merari - Rather, “Unto the rest the children of Merari” - that is to say, “unto the remainder of the Levites, who were descendants of Merari”: - the two other branches, the Kohathites and the Gershomites, having been treated of previously.


 
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