1 Chronicles 6:59

Easy-to-Read Version

Ashan, Juttah, and Beth Shemesh. They got all the cities and the fields around them.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Ashan and its pasturelands, and Beth-shemesh and its pasturelands.

Hebrew Names Version
and `Ashan with its suburbs, and Beit-Shemesh with its suburbs;

King James Version
And Ashan with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs:

English Standard Version
Ashan with its pasturelands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands;

New Century Version
Ashan, Juttah, and Beth Shemesh.

New English Translation
Ashan and its pasturelands, and Beth Shemesh and its pasturelands.

Amplified Bible
Ashan with its pasture lands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands;

New American Standard Bible
Ashan with its pasture lands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands;

World English Bible
and Ashan with its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with its suburbs;

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Ashan and her suburbes, and Bethshemesh and her suburbes:

Legacy Standard Bible
Ashan with its pasture lands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands;

Berean Standard Bible
Ashan, and Beth-shemesh, together with their pasturelands.

Complete Jewish Bible
and from the tribe of Asher: Mashal with the surrounding open land, ‘Avdon with the surrounding open land,

Darby Translation
and Ashan and its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh and its suburbs;

George Lamsa Translation
Atrah with its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with its suburbs;

Lexham English Bible
Ashan with its pasturelands, and Beth-Shemesh with its pasturelands.

Literal Translation
and Ashan and its open lands; and Beth-shemesh and its open lands.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Asan and Bethsemes, with their suburbes.

American Standard Version
and Ashan with its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with its suburbs;

Bible in Basic English
And Ashan with its outskirts, and Beth-shemesh with its outskirts;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Asan and her suburbes, Bethsemes and her suburbes.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
and out of the tribe of Asher: Mashal with the open land about it, and Abdon with the open land about it;

King James Version (1611)
And Ashan with her suburbes, and Beth-shemesh with her suburbes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and Asan and her suburbs, and Baethsamys and her suburbs:

English Revised Version
and Ashan with her suburbs, and Beth–shemesh with her suburbs:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Bethsames, and the subarbis of tho.

Update Bible Version
and Ashan with its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with its suburbs;

Webster's Bible Translation
And Ashan with its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with its suburbs:

New King James Version
Ashan Joshua 21:16">[fn] with its common-lands, and Beth Shemesh with its common-lands.

New Living Translation
Ain, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh.

New Life Bible
Ashan with its fields, and Beth-shemesh with its fields.

New Revised Standard
Ashan with its pasture lands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and Ashan, with her pasture lands, and Bethshemesh, with her pasture lands;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Asan also, and Bethsames, with their suburbs.

Revised Standard Version
Ashan with its pasture lands, and Beth-she'mesh with its pasture lands;

Young's Literal Translation
and Ashan and its suburbs, and Beth-Shemesh and its suburbs.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Ashan with its pasture lands and Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands;

Contextual Overview

⁵⁴ These are the places where Aaron's descendants lived. They lived in their camps in the land that was given to them. The Kohath families got the first share of the land that was given to the Levites. ⁵⁵ They were given the town of Hebron and the fields around it. This was in the area of Judah. ⁵⁶ But the fields farther from town and the villages near the town of Hebron were given to Caleb son of Jephunneh. ⁵⁷ The descendants of Aaron were given the city of Hebron. Hebron was a city of safety. They were also given the cities of Libnah, Jattir, Eshtemoa, ⁵⁸ Hilen, Debir, ⁵⁹ Ashan, Juttah, and Beth Shemesh. They got all the cities and the fields around them. ⁶⁰ From the tribe of Benjamin they got the cities of Gibeon, Geba, Alemeth, and Anathoth. They got all the cities and the fields around them. Thirteen cities were given to the Kohath families. ⁶¹ The rest of Kohath's descendants got ten towns from half the tribe of Manasseh. ⁶² The tribes that were the descendants of Gershon got 13 cities. They got the cities from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and the part of Manasseh living in the area of Bashan. ⁶³ The tribes that were the descendants of Merari got 12 cities. They got the cities from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun. They got them by throwing lots.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ashan: It is probable that either Ain, in Joshua, is a mistake for Ashan, or that it was called by both names. 1 Chronicles 4:32, Joshua 15:42, Joshua 21:16, Ain

Bethshemesh: Joshua 15:10, Joshua 21:16, 1 Samuel 6:12-19, Jeremiah 43:13

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.