Joshua 21:17

And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with the open land about it, Geba with the open land about it;

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,

In Context

16and Ain with the open land about it, and Juttah with the open land about it, and Beth-shemesh with the open land about it; nine cities out of those two tribes.

18Anathoth with the open land about it, and Almon with the open land about it; four cities.

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Cross References

Joshua 9:3But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,

1 Chronicles 6:60(6-45) and out of the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with the open land about it, and Alemeth with the open land about it, and Anathoth with the open land about it. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.

Nehemiah 12:29also from Beth-gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth; for the singers had builded them villages 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 →

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