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Joshua 15:20

The tribe of Judah got the land that God promised them. Each family group got part of the land.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Beer-Sheba;   Othniel;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Inheritance;   Judah, tribe and kingdom;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Judah, Tribe of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jerahmeel;   Joshua, the Book of;   Judah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Kirjath-Sepher;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Joshua;   Zin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Judah territory of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ju'dah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hill;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This was the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Judah by their clans.
Hebrew Names Version
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Yehudah according to their families.
King James Version
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.
Lexham English Bible
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Judah according to their families:
English Standard Version
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Judah according to their clans.
New Century Version
The tribe of Judah got the land God had promised them. Each family group got part of the land.
New English Translation
This is the land assigned to the tribe of Judah by its clans:
Amplified Bible
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Judah according to their families (clans).
New American Standard Bible
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Judah according to their families.
Geneva Bible (1587)
This shalbe the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Iudah according to their families.
Legacy Standard Bible
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Judah according to their families.
Contemporary English Version
The following is a list of the towns in each region given to the Judah clans:
Complete Jewish Bible
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Y'hudah, by clans.
Darby Translation
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.
George Lamsa Translation
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Judah by their families.
Good News Translation
This is the land that the families of the tribe of Judah received as their possession.
Literal Translation
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Judah, for their families:
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This is the enheritaunce of the trybe of Iuda amonge their kynreds.
American Standard Version
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.
Bible in Basic English
This is the heritage of the tribe of Judah, by their families.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
This is the inheritaunce of the tribe of the children of Iuda by their kinredes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.
King James Version (1611)
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Iudah according to their families.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Juda.
English Revised Version
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.
Berean Standard Bible
This is the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Judah.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
This is the possessioun of the lynage of the sones of Juda, bi her meynees.
Young's Literal Translation
This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Judah, for their families.
Update Bible Version
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Judah according to their families.
Webster's Bible Translation
This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.
World English Bible
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.
New King James Version
This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families:
New Living Translation
This was the homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Judah.
New Life Bible
This is the land given to the family group of the people of Judah for their families.
New Revised Standard
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Judah according to their families.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
This, is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Judah, by their families.
Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the possession of the tribe of the children of Juda by their kindreds.
Revised Standard Version
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Judah according to their families.
THE MESSAGE
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Judah, clan by clan. The southern towns of the tribe of Judah in the Negev were near the boundary of Edom: Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur, Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah, Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan, Ziph, Telem, Bealoth, Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth Hezron (that is, Hazor), Amam, Shema, Moladah, Hazar Gaddah, Heshmon, Beth Pelet, Hazar Shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah, Baalah, Iim, Ezem, Eltolad, Kesil, Hormah, Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah, Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon— a total of twenty-nine towns and their villages.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Judah according to their families.

Contextual Overview

20 The tribe of Judah got the land that God promised them. Each family group got part of the land.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Genesis 49:8-12, Deuteronomy 33:7

Cross-References

Genesis 14:5
So in the 14th year, King Kedorlaomer and the kings with him came to fight against them. Kedorlaomer and the kings with him defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim. They also defeated the Zuzites in Ham. They defeated the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim.
Isaiah 17:5
"That time will be like the grain harvest in Rephaim Valley. The workers gather the plants that grow in the field. Then they cut the heads of grain from the plants and collect the grain.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah, according to their families. The general description of which is given in the preceding part of the chapter, as the particular cities belonging to it are enumerated in the following part; the account of the gift of Hebron to Caleb, and the taking of Debir by Othniel, with the request of Achsah, and the grant of it, are inserted between them, and stand as it were in a parenthesis.


 
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