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Numbers 32:36

Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran. They built cities with strong walls, and they built barns for their animals.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Amorites;   Beth-Aram;   Beth-Haran;   Cities;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Gad, the Tribe of;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Beth-Nimrah;   Gad;   Leopard;   Reuben;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Farming;   Gilead;   Shepherd;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Beth-Aram;   City;   Fenced Cities;   Fold;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Betharam;   Beth-Haran;   Bethnimrah;   Fenced Cities;   Jogbehah;   Nimrah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Animals;   Baal-Meon;   Beth-Haran;   Beth-Nimrah;   Nimrah;   Tribes of Israel, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Beth-Haram;   Beth-Haran;   Beth-Nimrah;   Gad;   Israel;   Leopard;   Manasseh;   Reuben;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Betharam ;   Bethnimrah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Leopard;   Reuben;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Beth'-Aram;   Beth-Ha'ran;   Beth-Nim'rah;   Ja'besh;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Leopard;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Beth-Haram;   Beth-Haran;   Beth-Nimrah;   Fence;   Leopard;   Nimrah;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Beth-nimra;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Camp;   Leopard;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
and Beit-Nimrah, and Beth-haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep.
King James Version
And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.
Lexham English Bible
and Beth Nimrah and Beth Haran, the cities of Mibzar, and the sheep pens for flocks.
English Standard Version
Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.
New Century Version
Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran. These were strong, walled cities. And they built sheep pens.
New English Translation
Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran as fortified cities, and constructed pens for their flocks.
Amplified Bible
Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fortified (walled) cities, and sheepfolds for sheep.
New American Standard Bible
Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and sheepfolds for sheep.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, defenced cities: also sheepe foldes.
Legacy Standard Bible
and Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and sheepfolds for sheep.
Contemporary English Version
Beth-Nimrah, and Beth-Haran. They built walls around them and also built places to keep their sheep and goats.
Complete Jewish Bible
Beit-Nimrah and Beit-Haran — fortified cities; and also enclosures for sheep.
Darby Translation
and Beth-Nimrah, and Beth-haran, strong cities, and sheepfolds.
George Lamsa Translation
Beth-nimrah and Beth-hauran, fenced cities and folds for sheep.
Good News Translation
Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran.
Christian Standard Bible®
Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and built sheep pens.
Literal Translation
and Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Bethnimra, & Betharan, stronge fenced cities, & shepe foldes.
American Standard Version
and Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep.
Bible in Basic English
And Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran: walled towns and shut-in places for sheep.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Bethnimra, and Betharan, fensed cities: & they built foldes for the sheepe.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran; fortified cities, and folds for sheep.
King James Version (1611)
And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities: and foldes for sheepe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and Namram, and Baetharan, strong cities, and folds for sheep.
English Revised Version
and Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran: fenced cities, and folds for sheep.
Berean Standard Bible
Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and they built folds for their flocks.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Beeth-Nemra, and Betharan, strengid citees; and foldis to her beestis.
Young's Literal Translation
and Beth-Nimrah, and Beth-Haran, cities of defence, and sheepfolds.
Update Bible Version
and Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fortified cities: and folds for sheep.
World English Bible
and Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep.
New King James Version
Beth Nimrah and Beth Haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.
New Living Translation
Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran. These were all fortified towns with pens for their flocks.
New Life Bible
Bethnimrah and Beth-haran, cities with walls around them. And they made safe places for their sheep.
New Revised Standard
Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, - fortified cities and folds for flocks.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Bethnemra, and Betharan, fenced cities, and folds for their cattle.
Revised Standard Version
Beth-nim'rah and Beth-har'an, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and sheepfolds for sheep.

Contextual Overview

28 So Moses, Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and all the leaders of the tribes of Israel heard them make that promise. 29 Moses said to them, "The people of Gad and Reuben will cross the Jordan River. They will march before the Lord into battle. They will help you take the land. And you will give the land of Gilead as their part of the country. 30 But if they do not cross the river with you ready to fight, they will not get any land on this side. They will get only a share of the land of Canaan with the rest of you." 31 The people of Gad and Reuben answered, "We promise to do what the Lord commanded. 32 We will cross the Jordan River and march before the Lord into the land of Canaan. And our part of the country is the land east of the Jordan River." 33 So Moses gave that land to the people of Gad, to the people of Reuben, and to half the tribe of Manasseh. (Manasseh was Joseph's son.) That land included the kingdom of Sihon the Amorite and the kingdom of King Og of Bashan and all the cities around that area. 34 The people of Gad built the cities of Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer, 35 Atroth Shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah, 36 Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran. They built cities with strong walls, and they built barns for their animals. 37 The people of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Bethnimrah: Probably the same as Nimrim in Jeremiah 48:34, and the Bethnabris mentioned by Eusebius, five miles north from Livias. Burckhardt says, that "in the valley of the Jordan, south of Abou Obeida, are the ruins of Nemrim, probably the Beth-nimrah of the Scriptures." Numbers 32:3, Nimrah

fenced cities: Numbers 32:24

Reciprocal: Joshua 13:27 - Betharam Isaiah 15:6 - Nimrim

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities,.... The first of these is the same with Nimrah, Numbers 32:3, and the other is the same with Betharam, Joshua 13:27, it is called in the Jerusalem Talmud r, Bethramtha, and so by the Syrians, Bethramphta; and to the same place Herod gave the name of Livias or Julias s: these cities the children of Gad built or repaired for their families:

and folds for sheep; they also built for their cattle, as they promised to do, and Moses enjoined them, Numbers 32:16.

r Sheviith, fol. 38. 4. s Vid. Reland. Palestin. Illustrat. par. 2. p. 643.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The cities here named fall into three groups. On Dibon, compare Numbers 21:19. The Moabite stone was discovered here in 1868. This city, occupied on the first acquisition of the territory by the Gadites, and assigned by Joshua to the Reubenites, was eventually recaptured by the Moabites, in whose hands it remained. Ataroth, i. e., “crowns” (Attarus?) was seven miles northwest of Dibon. Aroer (Arair) lay between Dibon and the Arnon.

Atroth, Shophan - , was Atroth-Shophan, i. e., Atroth, or Ataroth of Shophan, or “of the burrow;” thus distinguished from the Ataroth named in the verse preceding from which it was probably not far distant. These four cities may be styled the Dibon settlement.

Numbers 32:35

Jaazer - (compare Numbers 32:1) with the neighboring “Jogbehah” (Jebeiha), seven miles to the northeast, formed the second group.

Numbers 32:36

The third Gadite settlement lay in the valley of the Jordan, to the west of the preceding. It comprised the cities of Bethnimrah (Nimrun) and “Beth-haran” (Beit-ha-ran).


 
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