Joshua 21:16
Ain with its suburbs, Juttah with its suburbs, and Beth Shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
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In The King James Version
In Context
15Holon with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs,
17Out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its suburbs, Geba with its suburbs,
Cross References
Joshua 15:32Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon. All the cities are twenty-nine, with their villages.
Joshua 15:55Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Jutah,
1 Samuel 6:12The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh; they went along the highway, lowing as they went, and did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the territory of Beth Shemesh.
1 Chronicles 6:59and Ashan with its suburbs, and Beth Shemesh with its suburbs;
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 →