Nehemiah 12:29

Also from Beth-hagilgal, and out of the fields of Geba' and Azmaveth; for the singers had built themselves villages round about Jerusalem.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem.

In Context

28And there gathered themselves together the sons of the singers, both out of the district round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophah;

30And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and then they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 11:30Behold, they are on the other side of the Jordan, far away in the direction of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites, who dwell in the plain, opposite Gilgal, near the grove of Moreh.

Joshua 10:43And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.

1 Chronicles 6:60(6:45) And from the tribe of Benjamin, Geba' with its open spaces, and 'Alemeth with its open spaces, and 'Anathoth with its open spaces. And all their cities were thirteen cities after their families.

Nehemiah 7:28The men of Beth-'azmaveth, forty and two.

Nehemiah 11:31And the children of Benjamin [dwelt], beginning from Geba', at Michmash, and 'Ay-ya, and Beth-el, and in their villages,

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 12:28-44

The Dedication of the Wall. ( b. c. 444.) 27 And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps. 28 And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi; 29 Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and… Read the whole commentary →

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