Nehemiah 12:29

also out of Beth-gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba, and Azmaveth,—for, villages, had the singers builded for themselves, round about Jerusalem.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

28So the sons of the singers gathered themselves together,—both out of the circuit round about Jerusalem, and out of the villages of the Netophathites;

30And the priests and the Levites purified themselves,—and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 11:30Are, they, not over the Jordan on the way towards the entering in of the sun, in the land of the Canaanite who dwelleth in the plain over against Gilgal beside the Teacher’s Terebinths?

Joshua 10:43And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp at Gilgal.

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

Nehemiah 7:28The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty-two;

Nehemiah 11:31And, the sons of Benjamin, [dwelt] from Geba, to Michmas and Aija, and Bethel, and the hamlets thereof:

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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