Nehemiah 12:29

And from Beth-gilgal and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the music-makers had made daughter-towns for themselves round about Jerusalem.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem.

In Context

28And the sons of the music-makers came together from the lowland round about Jerusalem and from the daughter-towns of the Netophathites,

30And the priests and the Levites made themselves clean; and they made the people clean, and the doorways and the wall.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 11:30Are they not on the other side of Jordan, looking west, in the land of the Canaanites living in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, by the holy tree of Moreh?

Joshua 10:43Then Joshua and all Israel with him went back to their tents at Gilgal.

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 7:28The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty-two.

Nehemiah 11:31And the children of Benjamin were living from Geba, at Michmash and Aija, and at Beth-el and its daughter-towns,

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 12:28-44

The Dedication of the Wall. ( b. c. 444.) 27 And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps. 28 And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi; 29 Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and… Read the whole commentary →

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