Joshua 21:39
Heshbon, and Jazer.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all.
In Context
40Altogether twelve cities were allotted to the Merari clans.
Cross References
Numbers 21:26Heshbon was the capital of the country. It was the city where King Sihon ruled. His army had previously defeated the army of the king of Moab, and then his people had begun to live in all of the land of Moab as far as the Arnon River in the south.
Numbers 32:3“We have a great amount of livestock.
Numbers 32:37The people of the tribe of Reuben rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,
Joshua 13:21That land included all the towns on the plain and all the area that King Sihon had previously ruled. But the army of Moses had defeated him and the rulers of the Midian people-group: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba. The armies of all those rulers fought battles along with the army of Sihon, and they lived in that country.
1 Chronicles 26:31It was written in the records of the descendants of Hebron that Jeriah was their leader. When David had been ruling for almost 40 years, they searched in those records, and they found names of capable men descended from Hebron who were at Jazer city in the Gilead region.
Jeremiah 48:32You people of Sibmah city, you have many vineyards. It is as though the branches of your vines extend across the Dead Sea to Jazer city.
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 →