Joshua 21:17
and out of the tribe of Benjamin: Gibeon and its suburbs, Geba and its suburbs,
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,
In Context
18Anathoth and its suburbs, and Almon and its suburbs; four cities.
Cross References
Joshua 9:3And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
1 Chronicles 6:60and, out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba and its suburbs, and Allemeth and its suburbs, and Anathoth and its suburbs: all their cities, thirteen cities, according to their families.
Nehemiah 12:29also from Beth-Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth; for the singers had built themselves hamlets 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 →