Joshua 19:8

round about their cities as far as Balec as men go to Bameth southward: this is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Symeon according to their families.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.

In Context

7Eremmon, and Thalcha, and Jether, and Asan; four cities and their villages,

9The inheritance of the tribe of the children of Symeon was a part of the lot of Juda, for the portion of the children of Juda was greater than theirs; and the children of Symeon inherited in the midst of their lot.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 30:27to those in + 30:27 Heb. and Alex. 'Bethel.'Bæthsur, and to those in Rama of the south, and to those in Gethor.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 19:2-10

The Lot of Simeon. ( b. c. 1444.) 1 And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah. 2 And they had in their inheritance Beer-sheba, or Sheba, and Moladah, 3 And Hazar-shual, and Balah, and Azem, 4 And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah, 5 And Ziklag, and Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susah, 6 And Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages: 7 Ain, Remmon, and… Read the whole commentary →

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