Joshua 21:17
From the tribe of Benjamin the following four towns and their pastures: Gibeon, Geba,
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,
In Context
16Ain, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh—nine towns from these two tribes.
Cross References
Joshua 9:3But when the people of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,
1 Chronicles 6:60From the tribe of Benjamin they received Gibeon, Geba, Alemeth, and Anathoth, together with their pasturelands. They had a total of thirteen towns among their families.
Nehemiah 12:29as well as from Beth-gilgal and from the area of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built villages for themselves all around 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 →