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Joshua 21:25

Half the tribe of Manasseh gave them Taanach and Gath Rimmon. In all, this half of Manasseh gave them two towns and some land around each town for their animals.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bileam;   Gath-Rimmon;   Levites;   Taanach;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Taanach;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Levite;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gath-Rimmon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Aner;   Gath-Rimmon;   Kohath;   Levi;   Tanach;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Aner;   Bileam;   Gath-Rimmon;   Ibleam;   Joshua, the Book of;   Kohathites;   Rimmono;   Taanach;   Tanach;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gath-Rimmon;   Ibleam;   Joshua;   Kohath, Kohathites;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Suburb;   Taanach;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bileam ;   Gathrimmon ;   Kohath, Kohathites ;   Levites ;   Refuge, Cities of;   Taanach, Tanach ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Taanach;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Gath-Rim'mon;   O'bed-E'dom;   Ta'anach;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Obed-Edom;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Aner (2);   Gath-Rimmon;   Ibleam;   Taanach;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Levi ;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
From half the tribe of Manasseh they gave:
Hebrew Names Version
Out of the half-tribe of Menashsheh, Ta`nakh with its suburbs, and Gat-Rimmon with its suburbs; two cities.
King James Version
And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs; two cities.
Lexham English Bible
From the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and its pasturelands and Gath Rimmon with its pasturelands; two cities.
English Standard Version
and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its pasturelands, and Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands—two cities.
New Century Version
West Manasseh gave them Taanach and Gath Rimmon and the pastures around these two towns.
New English Translation
From the half-tribe of Manasseh they assigned Taanach and Gath Rimmon, along with the grazing areas of each—a total of two cities.
Amplified Bible
From the half-tribe of Manasseh, they allotted Taanach with its pasture lands and Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands; two cities.
New American Standard Bible
From the half-tribe of Manasseh, they allotted Taanach with its pasture lands and Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands; two cities.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And out of the halfe tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her suburbes, and Gath-rimmon with her suburbes: two cities.
Legacy Standard Bible
From the half-tribe of Manasseh, they gave Taanach with its pasture lands and Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands; two cities.
Complete Jewish Bible
Out of the half-tribe of M'nasheh: Ta‘nakh with its surrounding open land and Gat-Rimmon with its surrounding open land — two cities.
Darby Translation
and out of half the tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and its suburbs and Gath-Rimmon and its suburbs: two cities.
George Lamsa Translation
And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with its suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; two cities with their suburbs.
Good News Translation
From the territory of West Manasseh they were given two cities: Taanach and Gathrimmon, with their pasture lands.
Literal Translation
And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and its open lands, and Gathrimmon and its open lands; two cities.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Of the halfe trybe of Manasses two cities, Thaenach and the suburbes therof, Gath Rimon and the suburbes therof:
American Standard Version
And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; two cities.
Bible in Basic English
And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, two towns.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And out of the halfe tribe of Manasses, Thanach with her suburbes, & Gathremon with her suburbes, two cities.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with the open land about it, and Gath-rimmon with the open land about it; two cities.
King James Version (1611)
And out of the halfe tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs, two cities.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And out of the half tribe of Manasse, Tanach and its suburbs; and Jebatha and its suburbs; two cities.
English Revised Version
And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with her suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with her suburbs; two cities.
Berean Standard Bible
And from the half-tribe of Manasseh they were given Taanach and Gath-rimmon-two cities, along with their pasturelands.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
`foure citees; sotheli of the half lynage of Manasses, Thanach, and Gethremon, with her subarbis; `twei citees.
Young's Literal Translation
And out of the half of the tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and its suburbs, and Gath-Rimmon and its suburbs -- two cities;
Update Bible Version
And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; two cities.
Webster's Bible Translation
And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; two cities.
World English Bible
Out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; two cities.
New King James Version
and from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with its common-land and Gath Rimmon with its common-land: two cities.
New Living Translation
The half-tribe of Manasseh allotted the following towns with their pasturelands to the priests: Taanach and Gath-rimmon—two towns.
New Life Bible
From the half-family group of Manasseh were given Taanach with its fields, and Gathrimmon with its fields, two cities.
New Revised Standard
Out of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Taanach with its pasture lands, and Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands—two towns.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Taanach, with her pasture land, and Gath-rimmon, with her pasture land, - two cities.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And of the half tribe of Manasses, Thanac and Gethremmon, with their suburbs, two cities.
Revised Standard Version
and out of the half-tribe of Manas'seh, Ta'anach with its pasture lands, and Gath-rim'mon with its pasture lands--two cities.
THE MESSAGE
And from the half-tribe of Manasseh they received Taanach and Gath Rimmon with their pastures—two towns.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
From the half-tribe of Manasseh, they allotted Taanach with its pasture lands and Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands; two cities.

Contextual Overview

9 These are the names of the towns that were in the areas that belonged to Judah and Simeon. 10 The first choice of towns was given to the Levites from the Kohath family group. 11 They gave them Kiriath Arba. (This is Hebron. It was named for a man named Arba. Arba was the father of Anak.) They also gave them some land near the town for their animals. 12 But the fields and the small towns around the city of Kiriath Arba belonged to Caleb son of Jephunneh. 13 So they gave the city of Hebron to Aaron's descendants. (Hebron was a city of safety.) They also gave Aaron's descendants the towns of Libnah, 14 Jattir, Eshtemoa, 15 Holon, Debir, 16 Ain, Juttah, and Beth Shemesh. They also gave them some of the land near these towns for their animals. These two tribes gave them nine towns. 17 They also gave Aaron's descendants cities that belonged to the tribe of Benjamin. These cities were Gibeon, Geba, 18 Anathoth, and Almon. They gave them these four towns and some of the land near the towns for their animals.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Aner and Bileam are mentioned in Chronicles, instead of Tanach and Gath-rimmon - 1 Chronicles 6:70. Either the cities had at this time different names, or afterwards their names were changed; or the Levites, being by some means dispossessed of the cities first assigned them, received others from their brethren. A careful examination of the marginal references will discover other variations of this kind, which may be accounted for in the same manner.

Tanach: Joshua 17:11, Judges 5:19

Reciprocal: Judges 1:27 - Taanach 1 Chronicles 6:69 - Gathrimmon

Cross-References

Genesis 13:7
(The Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in this land at the same time.) The shepherds of Abram and Lot began to argue.
Genesis 21:15
After some time, when all their drinking water was gone, Hagar put her son under a bush.
Genesis 21:17
God heard the boy crying, and God's angel called to Hagar from heaven. He said, "What is wrong, Hagar? Don't be afraid! God has heard the boy crying there.
Genesis 21:22
Then Abimelech and Phicol spoke with Abraham. Phicol was the commander of Abimelech's army. They said to Abraham, "God is with you in everything you do.
Genesis 29:8
But they said, "We cannot do that until all the flocks are gathered together. Then we will move the rock from the well, and all the sheep will drink."
Judges 1:15
Acsah answered him, "Give me a blessing. You gave me dry desert land in the Negev. Please give me some land with water on it." So Caleb gave her what she wanted. He gave her the upper and lower pools of water in that land.
Proverbs 17:10
Smart people learn more from a single correction than fools learn from a hundred beatings.
Proverbs 25:9
If you want to tell your friends about your own problems, tell them. But don't discuss what someone told you in private.
Proverbs 27:5
Open criticism is better than hidden love.
Matthew 18:15
"If your brother or sister in God's family does something wrong, go and tell them what they did wrong. Do this when you are alone with them. If they listen to you, then you have helped them to be your brother or sister again.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with her suburbs,.... Of which see Joshua 17:10;

and Gathrimmon with her suburbs, there was a city of this name in Dan, as in Joshua 21:24; nor was it unusual for cities to be called by the same name in different tribes:

two cities; these are called Aner and Bilean in 1 Chronicles 6:70; in process of time cities changed their names; two cities were a proper proportion for this half tribe; two more were given out of the other half tribe on the other side Jordan, as appears by what follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Of the cities of the non-priestly Kohathites, for Kibzaim we find Jokmeam in 1 Chronicles 6:68. This is perhaps another name for the same place, since both names may be derived from roots having a similar meaning; and for Gath-rimmon in 1 Chronicles 6:70, Bileam is given, and probably correctly; Gath-rimmon having apparently been repeated inadvertently from the preceding verse. Bileam is but another form of Ibleam Joshua 17:11.


 
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