Nehemiah 12:29

and from the house of Gilgal, and from fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for villages have the singers built for themselves round about Jerusalem;

Young's Literal Translation

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

28and sons of the singers are gathered together even from the circuit round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi,

30and the priests and the Levites are cleansed, and they cleanse the people, and the gates, and the wall.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 11:30are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going in of the sun, in the land of the Canaanite, who is dwelling in the plain over-against Gilgal, near the oaks of Moreh?

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

1 Chronicles 6:60And from the tribe of Benjamin, Geba and its suburbs, and Allemeth and its suburbs, and Anathoth and its suburbs. All their cities [are] thirteen cities, for their families.

Nehemiah 7:28Men of Beth-Azmaveth: forty and two.

Nehemiah 11:31And sons of Benjamin [are] at Geba, Michmash, and Aija, and Beth-El, and its small towns,

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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