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Complete Jewish Bible

Joshua 19:15

Also Katat, Nahalal, Shimron, Yid'alah and Beit-Lechem — twelve cities, together with their villages.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bethlehem;   Idalah;   Kattath;   Nahallal;   Shimron;   Zebulun;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Zebulun, the Tribe of;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Bethlehem;   Dan;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Zebulun;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bethlehem;   Idalah;   Kattath;   Kitron;   Nahallal;   Shimron;   Zebulun, Lot of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bethlehem;   Ibzan;   Idalah;   Kattath;   Kitron;   Nahalal;   Shimron Meron;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bethlehem;   Esdraelon;   Idalah;   Kattath;   Nahalal;   Nahallal;   Shimron;   Tribes of Israel, the;   Zebulun;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Bethlehem;   Ibzan;   Idalah;   Joshua;   Kattath;   Nahalal;   Shimron;   Zebulun;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Bethlehem;   Lots;   Zebedee ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bethlehem ;   Dimnah ;   Idalah ;   Kattath ;   Nahallal, Nahalal, Nahalol ;   Shimron ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Bethlehem;   Nahalal;   Nehelamite;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Beth'lehem;   Id'alah;   Kat'tath;   Nahal'al,;   Shim'ron;   Shim'ron-Me'ron;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bethlehem;   Idalah;   Joshua, Book of;   Kattath;   Kitron;   Nahalal;   Shimron (2);   Zebulun;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Bethlehem;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ibzan;   Simonias;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
along with Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem—twelve cities, with their settlements.
Hebrew Names Version
and Kattat, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Yid'alah, and Beit-Lechem: twelve cities with their villages.
King James Version
And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
Lexham English Bible
Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem; twelve cities and their villages.
English Standard Version
and Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem—twelve cities with their villages.
New Century Version
Inside this border were the cities of Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem. There were twelve towns and their villages.
New English Translation
Their territory included Kattah, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem; in all they had twelve cities and their towns.
Amplified Bible
Included were Kattah and Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and Bethlehem; twelve cities with their villages.
New American Standard Bible
Included also were Kattah, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem; twelve cities with their villages.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-lehem: twelue cities with their villages.
Legacy Standard Bible
Included also were Kattah and Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and Bethlehem; twelve cities with their villages.
Contemporary English Version
Zebulun had twelve towns with their surrounding villages. Some of these were Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Jiralah, and Bethlehem.
Darby Translation
and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Jidalah, and Beth-lehem: twelve cities and their hamlets.
Easy-to-Read Version
Inside this border were the cities of Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem. In all, there were twelve towns and all the fields around them.
George Lamsa Translation
And Kattath, Jahallal, Shamrin, Aralah and Beth-lehem; twelve cities with their villages.
Good News Translation
It included Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities, along with the towns around them.
Literal Translation
and Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem; twelve cities and their villages.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ratath, Nahalal, Simron, Iedeala, & Bethlehem: These are twolue cities and their vyllages.
American Standard Version
and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
Bible in Basic English
And Kattath and Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and Beth-lehem; twelve towns with their unwalled places.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Katath, Nahalol, Simeon, Iedalah, and Bethlehem: twelue cities with their villages.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-lehem; twelve cities with their villages.
King James Version (1611)
And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelue cities with their villages.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and Catanath, and Nabaal, and Symoon, and Jericho, and Baethman.
English Revised Version
and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-lehem: twelve cities with their villages.
Berean Standard Bible
It also included Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem. There were twelve cities, along with their villages.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Cathel, and Neamai, and Semrom, and Jedaba, and Bethleem, twelue citees, and `the townes of tho.
Young's Literal Translation
and Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-Lehem; twelve cities and their villages.
Update Bible Version
and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimeon, and Jiralah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-lehem; twelve cities with their villages.
World English Bible
and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
New King James Version
Included were Kattath, Nahallal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
New Living Translation
The towns in these areas included Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem—twelve towns with their surrounding villages.
New Life Bible
In their land were Kattah, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem. In all there were twelve cities with the towns around them.
New Revised Standard
and Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem—twelve towns with their villages.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and Kattath and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Idalah and Beth-lehem, - twelve cities, with their villages.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Cateth and Naalol and Semeron and Jedala and Bethlehem: twelve cities and their villages.
Revised Standard Version
and Kattath, Nahal'al, Shimron, I'dalah, and Bethlehem--twelve cities with their villages.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Included also were Kattah and Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and Bethlehem; twelve cities with their villages.

Contextual Overview

10 The third lot came up for the descendants of Z'vulun according to their families. The border of their inheritance began at Sarid. 11 Then their border went up westward to Mar‘alah, extended to Dabeshet and on to the vadi fronting Yokne‘am. 12 Also from Sarid it turned toward the sunrise to the east to the border of Kislot-Tavor, went on to Dovrat and up to Yafia. 13 From there it passed eastward to Gat-Hefer, on to ‘Et-Katzin, went out at Rimmon and reached to Ne‘ah. 14 Then the border turned on the north side to Hanaton, ending in the Yiftach'el Valley. 15 Also Katat, Nahalal, Shimron, Yid'alah and Beit-Lechem — twelve cities, together with their villages. 16 This is the inheritance of the descendants of Z'vulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Kattath: etc. Joshua 21:34, Joshua 21:35, Judges 1:30. Nahalol

Shimron: Joshua 11:1, Joshua 12:20

Bethlehem: Ruth 1:19, 2 Samuel 23:15, 2 Chronicles 11:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 35:19 - Ephrath Judges 17:7 - General Matthew 2:5 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 19:4
But before they could go to bed, the men of the city surrounded the house — young and old, everyone from every neighborhood of S'dom.
Genesis 19:5
They called Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to stay with you tonight? Bring them out to us! We want to have sex with them!"
Genesis 19:7
and said, "Please, my brothers, don't do such a wicked thing.
Genesis 19:8
Look here, I have two daughters who are virgins. Please, let me bring them out to you, and you can do with them what seems good to you; but don't do anything to these men, since they are guests in my house."
Genesis 19:17
When they had brought them out, he said, "Flee for your life! Don't look behind you, and don't stop anywhere in the plain, but escape to the hills! Otherwise you will be swept away."
Genesis 19:22
Hurry, and escape to that place, because I can't do anything until you arrive there." For this reason the city was named Tzo‘ar [small].
Genesis 19:24
Then Adonai caused sulfur and fire to rain down upon S'dom and ‘Amora from Adonai out of the sky.
Genesis 19:25
He overthrew those cities, the entire plain, all the inhabitants of the cities and everything growing in the ground.
Genesis 19:27
Avraham got up early in the morning, went to the place where he had stood before Adonai ,
2 Corinthians 6:2
For he says, "At the acceptable time I heard you; in the day of salvation I helped you."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Kattath, and Nahallal,.... Of the two first of these we read nowhere else, but in Joshua 21:34;

and Shimron was a royal city, the king of which Joshua took and hanged, Joshua 11:1;

and Idalah is a place Bochart conjectures t where the goddess Venus was worshipped, Idalia being one of her names;

and Bethlehem is a different place from that which was the birthplace of our Lord, called Bethlehem of Judah, to distinguish it from this:

twelve cities with their villages; more are named, but some of them belonged to other tribes, and only lay on the borders of this; and others might not be properly cities, but small towns.

t Canaan, l. 1. c. 3. col. 356.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Twelve cities - Only five have been mentioned, and the names in the verses preceding are apparently not names of Zebulonite cities, but merely of points in or near the boundary line. It would therefore appear that seven names have disappeared from the text, and perhaps also the definition of the western frontier.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 19:15. ShimronJoshua 12:20.

Beth-lehem — The house of bread; a different place from that in which our Lord was born.


 
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