Joshua 21:16

And 'Ayin with its open spaces, and Yuttah with its open spaces, and Beth-shemesh with its open spaces: nine cities from those two tribes.

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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 Cholon with its open spaces, and Debir with its open spaces,

17And from the tribe of Benjamin, Gib'on with its open spaces, Geba' with its open spaces,

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Cross References

Joshua 15:32And Lebaoth, and Shilchim, and 'Ayin, and Rimmon: in all twenty and nine cities, with their villages.

Joshua 15:55Ma'on, Carmel, and Ziph, and Yutah,

1 Samuel 6:12And the cows went straight forward on the way on the road to Beth-shemesh: on one highway they did go along, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them as far as the border of Beth-shemesh.

1 Chronicles 6:59(6:44) And 'Ashan with its open spaces, and Beth-shemesh with its open spaces.

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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