1 Chronicles 6:60

and 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.

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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

59Ashan with its pasture lands, and Beth Shemesh with its pasture lands;

61To the rest of the sons of Kohath were given by lot, out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities.

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Cross References

Joshua 18:24Chephar Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages.

1 Samuel 13:3Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear!”

1 Chronicles 8:6These are the sons of Ehud. These are the heads of fathers’ households of the inhabitants of Geba, who were carried captive to Manahath:

Isaiah 10:30Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!

Jeremiah 11:23There will be no remnant to them, for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.’”

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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