Joshua 21:17
Out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its suburbs, Geba with its suburbs,
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,
In Context
18Anathoth with its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs; four cities.
Cross References
Joshua 9:3But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
1 Chronicles 6:60and out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its suburbs, and Allemeth with its suburbs, and Anathoth with its suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.
Nehemiah 12:29also from Beth Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had built them villages around Jerusalem.
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 →