Numbers 32:37

Easy-to-Read Version

The people of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The children of Re'uven built Heshbon, and El`aleh, and Kiryatayim,

King James Version
And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,

Lexham English Bible
The descendants of Reuben rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,

English Standard Version
And the people of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

New Century Version
The Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

New English Translation
The Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

Amplified Bible
The sons of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

New American Standard Bible
The sons of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,

Legacy Standard Bible
And the sons of Reuben built Heshbon and Elealeh and Kiriathaim,

Contemporary English Version
The tribe of Reuben rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

Complete Jewish Bible
The descendants of Re'uven built Heshbon, El‘aleh, Kiryatayim,

Darby Translation
—And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elaleh, and Kirjathaim,

George Lamsa Translation
And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Koriathaim,

Good News Translation
The tribe of Reuben rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

Christian Standard Bible®
The Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

Literal Translation
And the sons of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The children of Ruben buylded He?bo, Eleale, Kiriathaim,

American Standard Version
And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,

Bible in Basic English
And the children of Reuben were the builders of Heshbon and Elealeh and Kiriathaim;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the children of Ruben built Hesbon, Eleale, Kiriathaim,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim;

King James Version (1611)
And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the sons of Ruben built Esebon, and Eleale, and Kariatham,

English Revised Version
And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim;

Berean Standard Bible
The Reubenites built up Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe the sones of Ruben bildiden Esebon, and Eleale, and Cariathiarym, and Nabo,

Young's Literal Translation
And the sons of Reuben have build Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,

Update Bible Version
And the sons of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,

Webster's Bible Translation
And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,

World English Bible
The children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,

New King James Version
And the children of Reuben built Heshbon and Elealeh and Kirjathaim,

New Living Translation
The descendants of Reuben built the towns of Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

New Life Bible
The sons of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

New Revised Standard
And the Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the sons of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, - and Kiriathaim,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the children of Ruben built Hesebon, and Eleale, and Cariathaim,

Revised Standard Version
And the sons of Reuben built Heshbon, Elea'leh, Kiriatha'im,

THE MESSAGE
The Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, and Kiriathaim, also Nebo and Baal Meon and Sibmah. They renamed the cities that they rebuilt.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The sons of Reuben built Heshbon and Elealeh and Kiriathaim,

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

Heshbon: Numbers 32:3, Numbers 21:27, Isaiah 15:4

Elealeh: Elealeh is placed, by Eusebius, a mile from Heshbon. It is now called El Aal, "the high," and is situated on a hill.

Reciprocal: Joshua 13:19 - And Kirjathaim Joshua 21:39 - Heshbon 1 Chronicles 6:76 - Kirjathaim 1 Chronicles 6:81 - Heshbon Jeremiah 48:1 - Nebo Jeremiah 48:2 - Heshbon Jeremiah 48:25 - and his Jeremiah 48:34 - Elealeh Ezekiel 25:9 - Baalmeon

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim. Heshbon was the royal city of Sihon king of the Amorites, and Elealeh was within a mile of it, see Numbers 32:3, this shows that those cities were not built anew properly, only repaired, for they were cities in being long before; besides, they had not time to build new cities, for in a few months after this they passed over Jordan; though indeed they left men enough behind to rebuild cities, whom they might set to work about them when they departed: Kirjathaim is, by the Targum of Jonathan, called the city of two streets paved with marble, and it adds, this is Beresha: Jerom t says, it is now called Coraiatha, which is pretty near its ancient name, and that it is ten miles from Medeba, a city of Arabia, mentioned as one of the cities in the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, Numbers 21:30.

t De loc. Heb. fol. 89. M.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Reubenites established themselves more compactly than the Gadites. Elcalch (el-’Al) a mile to the northeast; Nebo (Nebbeh) probably three miles to the southwest; Baal-meon (Main) nearly two miles to the south; Kirjathaim (Kureiyat?): and Shibmah, more properly Sibmah, famous at a later period for its vines (compare Isaiah 16:8), four miles east of Heshbon; all clustered round the old Amorite Capital. The Reubenites probably retained at the partition all these cities with the exception of Heshbon, which, passing to the Levites, were thenceforth reckoned as within the tribe of Gad.

Neither the Reubenites nor the Gadites were “builders” in the sense of founders of the cities of which they thus took possession. They probably fortified them, for the first time or afresh, so as to render them places of safety for their families during the campaigns on the other side of the Jordan; and provided them with all conveniences for their flocks and herds.