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The Darby Translation

Joshua 21:31

Helkath and its suburbs, and Rehob and its suburbs: four cities;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Helkath;   Levites;   Rehob;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Rehob;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Levite;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gershon;   Helkath;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gershon;   Helkath;   Levi;   Rehob (2);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Helkath;   Hukkok;   Joshua, the Book of;   Rehob;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gershon, Gershonites;   Helkath;   Joshua;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Suburb;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gershon, Gershonites ;   Helkath ;   Levites ;   Refuge, Cities of;   Rehob ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Hel'hath;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gershon;   Helkath;   Rehob;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Levi ;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Helkath with its pasturelands, and Rehob with its pasturelands—four cities.
Hebrew Names Version
Helkat with its suburbs, and Rechov with its suburbs; four cities.
King James Version
Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs; four cities.
Lexham English Bible
Helkath and its pasturelands, Rehob and its pasturelands; four cities.
English Standard Version
Helkath with its pasturelands, and Rehob with its pasturelands—four cities;
New Century Version
Helkath, and Rehob, and the pastures around these four towns.
New English Translation
Helkath, and Rehob, along with the grazing areas of each—a total of four cities;
Amplified Bible
Helkath with its pasture lands and Rehob with its pasture lands; four cities.
New American Standard Bible
Helkath with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands; four cities.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Helkah with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbes: foure cities.
Legacy Standard Bible
Helkath with its pasture lands and Rehob with its pasture lands; four cities.
Complete Jewish Bible
Helkat with its surrounding open land and Rechov with its surrounding open land — four cities.
Easy-to-Read Version
Helkath, and Rehob. In all, Asher gave them four towns and some land around each town for their animals.
George Lamsa Translation
Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four cities with their suburbs.
Good News Translation
Helkath, and Rehob, with their pasture lands.
Literal Translation
Helkath and its open lands, Rehob and its open lands; four cities.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Helkath and Rehob with the suburbes therof.
American Standard Version
Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four cities.
Bible in Basic English
Helkath and Rehob with their grass-lands, four towns.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Helcath with her suburbes, and Rohob with her suburbes, foure cities.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Helkath with the open land about it, and Rehob with the open land about it; four cities.
King James Version (1611)
Helkah with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs, foure cities.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and Chelcat and its suburbs; and Raab and its suburbs; four cities.
English Revised Version
Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs; four cities.
Berean Standard Bible
Helkath, and Rehob-four cities, along with their pasturelands.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Elecath, and Roob, with her subarbis; `foure citees.
Young's Literal Translation
Helkath and its suburbs, and Rehob and its suburbs -- four cities.
Update Bible Version
Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four cities.
Webster's Bible Translation
Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four cities.
World English Bible
Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four cities.
New King James Version
Helkath with its common-land, and Rehob with its common-land: four cities;
New Living Translation
Helkath, and Rehob—four towns.
New Life Bible
Helkath with its fields, and Rehob with its fields, four cities.
New Revised Standard
Helkath with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands—four towns.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Helkath, with her pasture land, and Rehob, with her pasture land, - four cities.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Helcath, and Rohob, with their suburbs, four cities.
Revised Standard Version
Helkath with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands--four cities;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Helkath with its pasture lands and Rehob with its pasture lands; four cities.

Contextual Overview

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 were mentioned by name, 10 and which the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, of the children of Levi had (for theirs was the first lot); 11 and they gave them Kirjath-Arba, [which Arba was] the father of Anak, that is, Hebron, in the mountain of Judah, with its suburbs round about it. 12 But the fields of the city and the hamlets thereof gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession. 13 And they gave to the children of Aaron the priest the city of refuge for the slayer, Hebron and its suburbs; and Libnah and its suburbs, 14 and Jattir and its suburbs, and Eshtemoa and its suburbs, 15 and Holon and its suburbs, and Debir and its suburbs, 16 and Ain and its suburbs, and Juttah and its suburbs, [and] Beth-shemesh and its suburbs: nine cities out of those two tribes; 17 and out of the tribe of Benjamin: Gibeon and its suburbs, Geba and its suburbs, 18 Anathoth and its suburbs, and Almon and its suburbs; four cities.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Rehob: See note on Numbers 13:21. Judges 1:31, Judges 18:21, 1 Chronicles 6:75

Reciprocal: Joshua 2:1 - harlot's house Joshua 19:30 - Rehob

Cross-References

Genesis 21:14
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a flask of water, and gave [it] to Hagar, putting [it] on her shoulder—and the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
Genesis 26:23
And he went up thence to Beer-sheba.
Genesis 26:33
And he called it Shebah; therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.
Joshua 15:28
and Hazar-Shual, and Beer-sheba, and Biziothiah;
Judges 20:1
And all the children of Israel went forth, and the assembly gathered together as one man, from Dan to Beer-sheba, and the land of Gilead, unto Jehovah at Mizpah.
2 Samuel 17:11
But I counsel that all Israel be speedily gathered to thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.
1 Kings 4:25
And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig-tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Helkath with her suburbs,.... :-; the same with Hukok in 1 Chronicles 6:75;

and Rehob with her suburbs, four cities; 1 Chronicles 6:75- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Joshua 19:18, etc. Of the cities of the Gershonites, for Beesh-terah read (Beeshterah.) The name is a contraction of Beth-Ashterah (“house of Ashterah”) and the city is undoubtedly the Ashtaroth or Astaroth of Og Joshua 12:4; Deu 1:4; 1 Chronicles 6:71.


 
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