Joshua 21:11

They gave them Kiriath-arba, the town of Arba (the father of Anak) or Hebron, in the highlands of Judah, with the surrounding pastures.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

10to the descendants of Aaron, the Kohathite families, who were Levites, since the lot fell to them first.

12But the fields of that town and the villages were given to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his property.

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Cross References

Genesis 35:27Then Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

Joshua 15:13He allotted Caleb the son of Jephunneh a share among the Judahites, by order of the Lord. It was Kiriath-arba or the city of Arba (Arba being the father of Anak), otherwise Hebron.

Joshua 20:7So they consecrated Kedesh in Galilee, in the highlands of Naphtali, Shechem in the highlands of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the highlands of Judah.

Luke 1:39Soon after this Mary set out, and made her way quickly into the hill-country, to a town in Judah;

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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