Joshua 21:17
And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave Gibeon and Geba with their grass-lands;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,
In Context
16And Ain, and Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, with their grass-lands; nine towns from those two tribes.
18Anathoth and Almon with their grass-lands, four towns.
Cross References
Joshua 9:3And the men of Gibeon, hearing what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,
1 Chronicles 6:60And from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its outskirts, and Alemeth with its outskirts, and Anathoth with its outskirts. All their towns among their families were thirteen towns.
Nehemiah 12:29And from Beth-gilgal and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the music-makers had made daughter-towns for themselves round about Jerusalem.
Matthew Henry on Joshua 21:10-43
9 And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned by name, 10 Which the children of Aaron, being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first lot. 11 And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it. 12 But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to… Read the whole commentary →