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Joshua 21:31

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Helkath;   Levites;   Rehob;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Rehob;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Levite;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gershon;   Helkath;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gershon;   Helkath;   Levi;   Rehob (2);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Helkath;   Hukkok;   Joshua, the Book of;   Rehob;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gershon, Gershonites;   Helkath;   Joshua;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Suburb;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gershon, Gershonites ;   Helkath ;   Levites ;   Refuge, Cities of;   Rehob ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Hel'hath;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gershon;   Helkath;   Rehob;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Levi ;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Helkath with its pasturelands, and Rehob with its pasturelands—four cities.
Hebrew Names Version
Helkat with its suburbs, and Rechov with its suburbs; four cities.
King James Version
Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs; four cities.
Lexham English Bible
Helkath and its pasturelands, Rehob and its pasturelands; four cities.
English Standard Version
Helkath with its pasturelands, and Rehob with its pasturelands—four cities;
New Century Version
Helkath, and Rehob, and the pastures around these four towns.
New English Translation
Helkath, and Rehob, along with the grazing areas of each—a total of four cities;
Amplified Bible
Helkath with its pasture lands and Rehob with its pasture lands; four cities.
New American Standard Bible
Helkath with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands; four cities.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Helkah with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbes: foure cities.
Legacy Standard Bible
Helkath with its pasture lands and Rehob with its pasture lands; four cities.
Complete Jewish Bible
Helkat with its surrounding open land and Rechov with its surrounding open land — four cities.
Darby Translation
Helkath and its suburbs, and Rehob and its suburbs: four cities;
Easy-to-Read Version
Helkath, and Rehob. In all, Asher gave them four towns and some land around each town for their animals.
George Lamsa Translation
Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four cities with their suburbs.
Good News Translation
Helkath, and Rehob, with their pasture lands.
Literal Translation
Helkath and its open lands, Rehob and its open lands; four cities.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Helkath and Rehob with the suburbes therof.
American Standard Version
Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four cities.
Bible in Basic English
Helkath and Rehob with their grass-lands, four towns.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Helcath with her suburbes, and Rohob with her suburbes, foure cities.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Helkath with the open land about it, and Rehob with the open land about it; four cities.
King James Version (1611)
Helkah with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs, foure cities.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and Chelcat and its suburbs; and Raab and its suburbs; four cities.
English Revised Version
Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs; four cities.
Berean Standard Bible
Helkath, and Rehob-four cities, along with their pasturelands.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Elecath, and Roob, with her subarbis; `foure citees.
Young's Literal Translation
Helkath and its suburbs, and Rehob and its suburbs -- four cities.
Update Bible Version
Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four cities.
Webster's Bible Translation
Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four cities.
World English Bible
Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four cities.
New King James Version
Helkath with its common-land, and Rehob with its common-land: four cities;
New Living Translation
Helkath, and Rehob—four towns.
New Life Bible
Helkath with its fields, and Rehob with its fields, four cities.
New Revised Standard
Helkath with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands—four towns.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Helkath, with her pasture land, and Rehob, with her pasture land, - four cities.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Helcath, and Rohob, with their suburbs, four cities.
Revised Standard Version
Helkath with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands--four cities;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Helkath with its pasture lands and Rehob with its pasture lands; four cities.

Contextual Overview

9They assigned from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin the following towns, here named individually (these were for the descendants of Aaron who were from the families of the Kohathite branch of Levi because the first lot fell to them): 11Kiriath Arba (Arba was the ancestor of Anak), that is, Hebron, in the hills of Judah, with access to the pastures around it. The fields of the city and its open lands they had already given to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession. 13To the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron (the asylum-city for the unconvicted killers), Libnah, Jattir, Eshtemoa, Holon, Debir, Ain, Juttah, and Beth Shemesh, all with their accompanying pastures—nine towns from these two tribes. 17And from the tribe of Benjamin: Gibeon, Geba, Anathoth, and Almon, together with their pastures—four towns. 19 The total for the cities and pastures for the priests descended from Aaron came to thirteen. 20The rest of the Kohathite families from the tribe of Levi were assigned their cities by lot from the tribe of Ephraim: Shechem (the asylum-city for the unconvicted killer) in the hills of Ephraim, Gezer, Kibzaim, and Beth Horon, with their pastures—four towns. 23From the tribe of Dan they received Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Aijalon, and Gath Rimmon, all with their pastures—four towns. 25 And from the half-tribe of Manasseh they received Taanach and Gath Rimmon with their pastures—two towns. 26 All told, ten cities with their pastures went to the remaining Kohathite families. 27 The Gershonite families of the tribe of Levi were given from the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan (an asylum-city for the unconvicted killer), and Be Eshtarah, with their pastures—two cities.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Rehob: See note on Numbers 13:21. Judges 1:31, Judges 18:21, 1 Chronicles 6:75

Reciprocal: Joshua 2:1 - harlot's house Joshua 19:30 - Rehob

Cross-References

Genesis 21:14
Abraham got up early the next morning, got some food together and a canteen of water for Hagar, put them on her back and sent her away with the child. She wandered off into the desert of Beersheba. When the water was gone, she left the child under a shrub and went off, fifty yards or so. She said, "I can't watch my son die." As she sat, she broke into sobs.
Judges 20:1
Then all the People of Israel came out. The congregation met in the presence of God at Mizpah. They were all there, from Dan to Beersheba, as one person! The leaders of all the people, representing all the tribes of Israel, took their places in the gathering of God's people. There were four hundred divisions of sword-wielding infantry.
2 Samuel 17:11
"Here's what I'd advise: Muster the whole country, from Dan to Beersheba, an army like the sand of the sea, and you personally lead them. We'll smoke him out wherever he is, fall on him like dew falls on the earth, and, believe me, there won't be a single survivor. If he hides out in a city, then the whole army will bring ropes to that city and pull it down and into a gully—not so much as a pebble left of it!"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Helkath with her suburbs,.... :-; the same with Hukok in 1 Chronicles 6:75;

and Rehob with her suburbs, four cities; 1 Chronicles 6:75- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Joshua 19:18, etc. Of the cities of the Gershonites, for Beesh-terah read (Beeshterah.) The name is a contraction of Beth-Ashterah (“house of Ashterah”) and the city is undoubtedly the Ashtaroth or Astaroth of Og Joshua 12:4; Deu 1:4; 1 Chronicles 6:71.


 
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