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Complete Jewish Bible

Joshua 19:7

‘Ayin, Rimmon, ‘Eter and ‘Ashan — four cities, together with their villages;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ain;   Amam;   Ashan;   Ether;   Rimmon;   Simeon;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Simeon, the Tribe of;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Canaanites;   Dan;   Rimmon;   Simeon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Chor-Ashan;   Rimmon;   Simeon, the Tribe of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ain;   Enrimmon;   Ether;   Israel;   Judah;   Remmon;   Simeon;   Tochen;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ain;   Ashan;   Bor-Ashan;   En-Rimmon;   Etam;   Ether;   Remmon;   Rimmon;   Tochen;   Tribes of Israel, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ain;   Cor-Ashan;   En-Rimmon;   Ether;   Joshua;   Negeb,;   Rimmon;   Simeon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Aenon ;   Lots;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ain;   Ashan ;   Enrimmon ;   Ether ;   Rimmon ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Remmon;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ain;   Judah territory of;   Rimmon;   Simeon;   Smith Bible Dictionary - A'in;   A'shan;   En-Rim'mon;   E'tam;   E'ther;   Rim'mon;   Sim'eon;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ain (2);   Ashan;   En-Rimmon;   Ether;   Joshua (2);   Joshua, Book of;   Negeb;   Remmon;   Rimmon (1);   Tochen;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ain;   Ashan;   Ether;   Negeb;   Palestine;   Rimmon;   Simeon, Tribe of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan—four cities, with their settlements;
Hebrew Names Version
`Ayin, Rimmon, and `Eter, and `Ashan; four cities with their villages:
King James Version
Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:
Lexham English Bible
Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages,
English Standard Version
Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan—four cities with their villages,
New Century Version
They received the towns of Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan, four towns and their villages.
New English Translation
Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan—a total of four cities and their towns,
Amplified Bible
Ain, Rimmon and Ether and Ashan; four cities with their villages;
New American Standard Bible
Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages;
Geneva Bible (1587)
Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan: foure cities with their villages.
Legacy Standard Bible
Ain, Rimmon and Ether and Ashan; four cities with their villages;
Contemporary English Version
In another region, Simeon had the following four towns with their surrounding villages: Enrimmon, Tachan, Ether, and Ashan.
Darby Translation
Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan: four cities and their hamlets;
Easy-to-Read Version
They also got the towns of Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan. There were four towns and all the fields around them.
George Lamsa Translation
Ain, Remmon, Gather, and Ashan; four cities and their villages;
Good News Translation
There were also Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan: four cities, along with the towns around them.
Literal Translation
Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ain, Rimon, Ether, Asan: these are foure cities and their vyllages.
American Standard Version
Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages:
Bible in Basic English
Ain, Rimmon, and Ether and Ashan; four towns with their unwalled places;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ain, Remmon, Ether, & Asan, foure cities with their villages.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages;
King James Version (1611)
Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan: foure cities and their villages,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Eremmon, and Thalcha, and Jether, and Asan; four cities and their villages,
English Revised Version
Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages:
Berean Standard Bible
Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan-four cities, along with their villages,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Aym, and Remmon, and Athar, and Asam, foure citees, and `the townes of tho; alle the townes bi cumpas of these citees,
Young's Literal Translation
Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages;
Update Bible Version
En-rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan:
Webster's Bible Translation
Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:
World English Bible
Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages:
New King James Version
Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan: four cities and their villages;
New Living Translation
It also included Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan—four towns with their villages,
New Life Bible
There were Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan, four cities with their towns.
New Revised Standard
Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan—four towns with their villages;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ain, Rimmon, and Ether and Ashan, - four cities, with their villages,
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Remmon and Athor and Asan: four cities, and their villages.
Revised Standard Version
En-rimmon, Ether, and Ashan--four cities with their villages;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Ain, Rimmon and Ether and Ashan; four cities with their villages;

Contextual Overview

1 The second lot came out for Shim‘on, for the tribe of the descendants of Shim‘on according to their families. Their inheritance was inside the inheritance of the descendants of Y'hudah. 2 For their inheritance they had Be'er-Sheva, Sheva, Moladah, 3 Hatzar-Shu‘al, Balah, ‘Etzem, 4 El-Tolad, B'tul, Hormah, 5 Ziklag, Beit-Markavot, Hatzar-Susah, 6 Beit-L'va'ot and Sharuchen — thirteen cities, together with their villages; 7 ‘Ayin, Rimmon, ‘Eter and ‘Ashan — four cities, together with their villages; 8 and all the villages surrounding these cities, as far as Ba‘alat-Be'er, Ramah of the Negev. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Shim‘on according to their families. 9 The inheritance of the descendants of Shim‘on was taken out of the allotment for the descendants of Y'hudah, because the portion given to the descendants of Y'hudah was too much for them, so the descendants of Shim‘on had an inheritance inside the descendants of Y'hudah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ain: Joshua 15:32

Remmon: Numbers 33:19, Numbers 33:20, 1 Chronicles 4:32, Rimmon

Ether: Joshua 15:42

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 30:30 - Chorashan

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 19:9
"Stand back!" they replied. "This guy came to live here, and now he's decided to play judge. For that we'll deal worse with you than with them!" Then they crowded in on Lot, in order to get close enough to break down the door.
Genesis 19:11
Then they struck the men at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they couldn't find the doorway.
Genesis 19:23
By the time Lot had come to Tzo‘ar, the sun had risen over the land.
Genesis 19:24
Then Adonai caused sulfur and fire to rain down upon S'dom and ‘Amora from Adonai out of the sky.
Leviticus 18:22
(RY: iv, LY: vii) "‘You are not to go to bed with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination.
Leviticus 20:13
If a man goes to bed with a man as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they must be put to death; their blood is on them.
Deuteronomy 23:17
Allow him to stay with you, in whichever place suits him best among your settlements; do not mistreat him.
Judges 19:23
The man whose house it was went out and said to them, "No, my brothers, please don't do anything as wrong as this. Look, he's just a guest in my house; don't do this degrading thing.
Acts 17:26
"From one man he made every nation living on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the limits of their territories and the periods when they would flourish.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ain, Remmon,.... Of the two first, which were cities of Judah,

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and Ether, and Ashan; of the two last, see Gill "Jos 19:42";

four cities and their villages; Ain, Remmon, therefore, could not be one city, at this time, as it seems to have been in the times of Nehemiah, Nehemiah 11:29; or otherwise there would have been but three cities.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The inheritance of Simeon was taken out of the portion of Judah, which proved on experience to be larger than the numbers of that tribe required. The Simeonite territory is described by its towns, of which fourteen were in the Negeb, and four others Joshua 19:7 partly in the Negeb and partly in “the valley.” On the narrow confines here assigned to Simeon, and its insignificant position altogether among the Twelve tribes, see Deuteronomy 33:6 note.

Joshua 19:6

Thirteen - Fourteen names have been given. The error is probably due to the use of letters for numbers, which has led to many similar mistakes in other places (see Joshua 15:32).


 
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