Joshua 21:16

And Ain, and Jeta, and Bethsames, with their suburbs : nine cities out of the two tribes, as hath been said.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.

In Context

15And Holon, and Dabir,

17And out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, Gabaon, and Gabae,

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Cross References

Joshua 15:32Lebaoth and Selim and Aen and Remmon: all the cities twenty-nine, and their villages.

Joshua 15:55Maon and Carmel and Ziph and Jota,

1 Samuel 6:12And the kine took the straight way that leadeth to Bethsames, and they went along the way, lowing as they went: and turned not aside neither to the right hand nor to the left: and the lords of the Philistines followed them as far as the borders of Bethsames.

1 Chronicles 6:59Asan also, and Bethsames, with their suburbs.

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 →

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