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New Living Translation

Joshua 19:15

The towns in these areas included Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem—twelve towns with their surrounding villages.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bethlehem;   Idalah;   Kattath;   Nahallal;   Shimron;   Zebulun;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Zebulun, the Tribe of;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Bethlehem;   Dan;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Zebulun;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bethlehem;   Idalah;   Kattath;   Kitron;   Nahallal;   Shimron;   Zebulun, Lot of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bethlehem;   Ibzan;   Idalah;   Kattath;   Kitron;   Nahalal;   Shimron Meron;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bethlehem;   Esdraelon;   Idalah;   Kattath;   Nahalal;   Nahallal;   Shimron;   Tribes of Israel, the;   Zebulun;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Bethlehem;   Ibzan;   Idalah;   Joshua;   Kattath;   Nahalal;   Shimron;   Zebulun;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Bethlehem;   Lots;   Zebedee ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bethlehem ;   Dimnah ;   Idalah ;   Kattath ;   Nahallal, Nahalal, Nahalol ;   Shimron ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Bethlehem;   Nahalal;   Nehelamite;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Beth'lehem;   Id'alah;   Kat'tath;   Nahal'al,;   Shim'ron;   Shim'ron-Me'ron;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bethlehem;   Idalah;   Joshua, Book of;   Kattath;   Kitron;   Nahalal;   Shimron (2);   Zebulun;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Bethlehem;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ibzan;   Simonias;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
along with Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem—twelve cities, with their settlements.
Hebrew Names Version
and Kattat, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Yid'alah, and Beit-Lechem: twelve cities with their villages.
King James Version
And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
Lexham English Bible
Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem; twelve cities and their villages.
English Standard Version
and Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem—twelve cities with their villages.
New Century Version
Inside this border were the cities of Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem. There were twelve towns and their villages.
New English Translation
Their territory included Kattah, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem; in all they had twelve cities and their towns.
Amplified Bible
Included were Kattah and Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and Bethlehem; twelve cities with their villages.
New American Standard Bible
Included also were Kattah, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem; twelve cities with their villages.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-lehem: twelue cities with their villages.
Legacy Standard Bible
Included also were Kattah and Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and Bethlehem; twelve cities with their villages.
Contemporary English Version
Zebulun had twelve towns with their surrounding villages. Some of these were Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Jiralah, and Bethlehem.
Complete Jewish Bible
Also Katat, Nahalal, Shimron, Yid'alah and Beit-Lechem — twelve cities, together with their villages.
Darby Translation
and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Jidalah, and Beth-lehem: twelve cities and their hamlets.
Easy-to-Read Version
Inside this border were the cities of Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem. In all, there were twelve towns and all the fields around them.
George Lamsa Translation
And Kattath, Jahallal, Shamrin, Aralah and Beth-lehem; twelve cities with their villages.
Good News Translation
It included Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities, along with the towns around them.
Literal Translation
and Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem; twelve cities and their villages.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ratath, Nahalal, Simron, Iedeala, & Bethlehem: These are twolue cities and their vyllages.
American Standard Version
and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
Bible in Basic English
And Kattath and Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and Beth-lehem; twelve towns with their unwalled places.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Katath, Nahalol, Simeon, Iedalah, and Bethlehem: twelue cities with their villages.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-lehem; twelve cities with their villages.
King James Version (1611)
And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelue cities with their villages.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and Catanath, and Nabaal, and Symoon, and Jericho, and Baethman.
English Revised Version
and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-lehem: twelve cities with their villages.
Berean Standard Bible
It also included Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem. There were twelve cities, along with their villages.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Cathel, and Neamai, and Semrom, and Jedaba, and Bethleem, twelue citees, and `the townes of tho.
Young's Literal Translation
and Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-Lehem; twelve cities and their villages.
Update Bible Version
and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimeon, and Jiralah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-lehem; twelve cities with their villages.
World English Bible
and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
New King James Version
Included were Kattath, Nahallal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
New Life Bible
In their land were Kattah, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem. In all there were twelve cities with the towns around them.
New Revised Standard
and Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem—twelve towns with their villages.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and Kattath and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Idalah and Beth-lehem, - twelve cities, with their villages.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Cateth and Naalol and Semeron and Jedala and Bethlehem: twelve cities and their villages.
Revised Standard Version
and Kattath, Nahal'al, Shimron, I'dalah, and Bethlehem--twelve cities with their villages.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Included also were Kattah and Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and Bethlehem; twelve cities with their villages.

Contextual Overview

10 The third allotment of land went to the clans of the tribe of Zebulun. The boundary of Zebulun's homeland started at Sarid. 11 From there it went west, going past Maralah, touching Dabbesheth, and proceeding to the brook east of Jokneam. 12 In the other direction, the boundary went east from Sarid to the border of Kisloth-tabor, and from there to Daberath and up to Japhia. 13 Then it continued east to Gath-hepher, Eth-kazin, and Rimmon and turned toward Neah. 14 The northern boundary of Zebulun passed Hannathon and ended at the valley of Iphtah-el. 15 The towns in these areas included Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem—twelve towns with their surrounding villages. 16 The homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Zebulun included these towns and their surrounding villages.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Kattath: etc. Joshua 21:34, Joshua 21:35, Judges 1:30. Nahalol

Shimron: Joshua 11:1, Joshua 12:20

Bethlehem: Ruth 1:19, 2 Samuel 23:15, 2 Chronicles 11:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 35:19 - Ephrath Judges 17:7 - General Matthew 2:5 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 19:4
But before they retired for the night, all the men of Sodom, young and old, came from all over the city and surrounded the house.
Genesis 19:5
They shouted to Lot, "Where are the men who came to spend the night with you? Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them!"
Genesis 19:7
"Please, my brothers," he begged, "don't do such a wicked thing.
Genesis 19:8
Look, I have two virgin daughters. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do with them as you wish. But please, leave these men alone, for they are my guests and are under my protection."
Genesis 19:17
When they were safely out of the city, one of the angels ordered, "Run for your lives! And don't look back or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away!"
Genesis 19:22
But hurry! Escape to it, for I can do nothing until you arrive there." (This explains why that village was known as Zoar, which means "little place.")
Genesis 19:24
Then the Lord rained down fire and burning sulfur from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah.
Genesis 19:25
He utterly destroyed them, along with the other cities and villages of the plain, wiping out all the people and every bit of vegetation.
Genesis 19:27
Abraham got up early that morning and hurried out to the place where he had stood in the Lord 's presence.
2 Corinthians 6:2
For God says, "At just the right time, I heard you. On the day of salvation, I helped you." Indeed, the "right time" is now. Today is the day of salvation.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Kattath, and Nahallal,.... Of the two first of these we read nowhere else, but in Joshua 21:34;

and Shimron was a royal city, the king of which Joshua took and hanged, Joshua 11:1;

and Idalah is a place Bochart conjectures t where the goddess Venus was worshipped, Idalia being one of her names;

and Bethlehem is a different place from that which was the birthplace of our Lord, called Bethlehem of Judah, to distinguish it from this:

twelve cities with their villages; more are named, but some of them belonged to other tribes, and only lay on the borders of this; and others might not be properly cities, but small towns.

t Canaan, l. 1. c. 3. col. 356.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Twelve cities - Only five have been mentioned, and the names in the verses preceding are apparently not names of Zebulonite cities, but merely of points in or near the boundary line. It would therefore appear that seven names have disappeared from the text, and perhaps also the definition of the western frontier.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 19:15. ShimronJoshua 12:20.

Beth-lehem — The house of bread; a different place from that in which our Lord was born.


 
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