Joshua 21:38
And, out of the tribe of Gad, a city of refuge for the manslayer—even Ramoth in Gilead, with her pasture land,—and Mahanaim, with her pasture land;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
37Kedemoth, with her pasture land and Mephaath, with her pasture land,—four cities.
39Heshbon, with her pasture land, Jazer, with her pasture land,—in all, four cities.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:43namely Bezer, in the desert of the table-land, for the Reubenites,—and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.
Joshua 13:30and their boundary was—from Mahanaim all Bashan all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan and all the Encampments of Jair which are in Bashan three-score cities;
2 Samuel 17:24When, David, had come to Mahanaim, Absolom, had passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
1 Kings 4:13Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead,—to him, belonged the towns of Jair, son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, his, was the region of Argob which is in Bashan, sixty great cities, with walls and with bars of bronze;
1 Kings 22:3And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that, ours, is Ramoth-gilead,—yet, we, are too idle to take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?
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 →