Nehemiah 12:29

also from Beth Gilgal and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built themselves villages around Jerusalem.

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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

28The sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain around Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites;

30The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 11:30Aren’t they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah near Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?

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

1 Chronicles 6:60and out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its pasture lands, Allemeth with its pasture lands, and Anathoth with its pasture lands. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.

Nehemiah 7:28The men of Beth Azmaveth: forty-two.

Nehemiah 11:31The children of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns,

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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