1 Chronicles 6:60

And from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba and its outskirts, and Allemeth and its outskirts, and Anathoth and its outskirts. All their cities [are] thirteen cities among their families.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And out of the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with her suburbs, and Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.

In Context

59and Ashan and its outskirts, and Beth-Shemesh and its outskirts.

61And to the sons of Kohath, those left of the family of the tribe, from the half of the tribe, the half of Manasseh, by lot, [are] ten cities.

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Cross References

Joshua 18:24and Chephar-Haammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities and their villages.

1 Samuel 13:3And Jonathan strikes the garrison of the Philistines which [is] in Geba, and the Philistines hear, and Saul has blown with a horn through all the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear.”

1 Chronicles 8:6And these [are] sons of Ehud—they are heads of fathers to the inhabitants of Geba, and they remove them to Manahath:

Isaiah 10:30Cry aloud [with] your voice, daughter of Gallim, || Give attention, Laish! Answer her, Anathoth.

Jeremiah 11:23And they have no remnant, || For I bring calamity to the men of Anathoth, || The year of their inspection!”

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 6:55-81

The Cities of the Levites. ( b. c. 1444.) 54 Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot. 55 And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it. 56 But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 57 And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, namely, Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs,… Read the whole commentary →

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