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English Standard Version

Joshua 21:15

Holon with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Debir;   Hilen;   Levites;   Priest;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Aaronites;   Debir;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Levite;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Judah, Tribe of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Debir (1);   Hilen;   Holon;   Judah;   Levi;   Mary, the Virgin;   Priest;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Debir;   Hilen;   Holon;   Joshua, the Book of;   Kohathites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Beth-Shemesh;   Debir;   Holon;   Joshua;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Suburb;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Debir ;   Hilen ;   Kohath, Kohathites ;   Levites ;   Refuge, Cities of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Dehir;   Smith Bible Dictionary - De'bir;   Ho'lon;   Priest;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Debir (2);   Hilen;   Holon;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Debir;   Holon;   Kirjath-Sepher;   Levi ;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Holon with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands,
Hebrew Names Version
and Holon with its suburbs, and Devir with its suburbs,
King James Version
And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs,
Lexham English Bible
Holon and its pasturelands, Debir and its pasturelands,
New Century Version
Holon, Debir,
New English Translation
Holon, Debir,
Amplified Bible
and Holon with its pasture lands and Debir with its pasture lands,
New American Standard Bible
Holon with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Holon with her suburbes, and Debir with her suburbes,
Legacy Standard Bible
Holon with its pasture lands, and Debir with its pasture lands,
Complete Jewish Bible
Holon with its surrounding open land; D'vir with its surrounding open land;
Darby Translation
and Holon and its suburbs, and Debir and its suburbs,
Easy-to-Read Version
Holon, Debir,
George Lamsa Translation
Halol with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs,
Good News Translation
Holon, Debir,
Literal Translation
and Holon and its open lands, and Debir and its open lands,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Holon and the suburbes therof, Debir and the suburbes therof,
American Standard Version
and Holon with its suburbs, and Debir with its suburbs,
Bible in Basic English
And Holon with its grass-lands, and Debir with its grass-lands;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Holon with her suburbes, Dabir with her suburbes:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and Holon with the open land about it, and Debir with the open land about it;
King James Version (1611)
And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and Gella and its suburbs; and Dabir and its suburbs;
English Revised Version
and Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs;
Berean Standard Bible
Holon, Debir,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Elon, and Dabir, and Ayn, and Lethan,
Young's Literal Translation
and Holon and its suburbs, and Debir and its suburbs,
Update Bible Version
and Holon with its suburbs, and Debir with its suburbs,
Webster's Bible Translation
And Holon with its suburbs, and Debir with its suburbs,
World English Bible
and Holon with its suburbs, and Debir with its suburbs,
New King James Version
Holon with its common-land, Debir with its common-land,
New Living Translation
Holon, Debir,
New Life Bible
Holon with its fields, Debir with its fields,
New Revised Standard
Holon with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and Holon, with her pasture land, and Debir, with her pasture land;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Holon, and Dabir,
Revised Standard Version
Holon with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and Holon with its pasture lands and Debir with its pasture lands,

Contextual Overview

9 Out of the tribe of the people of Judah and the tribe of the people of Simeon they gave the following cities mentioned by name, 10 which went to the descendants of Aaron, one of the clans of the Kohathites who belonged to the people of Levi; since the lot fell to them first. 11 They gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with the pasturelands around it. 12 But the fields of the city and its villages had been given to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession. 13 And to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands, Libnah with its pasturelands, 14 Jattir with its pasturelands, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands, 15 Holon with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands, 16 Ain with its pasturelands, Juttah with its pasturelands, Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands—nine cities out of these two tribes; 17 then out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its pasturelands, Geba with its pasturelands, 18 Anathoth with its pasturelands, and Almon with its pasturelands—four cities.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Holon: Joshua 15:51, 1 Chronicles 6:58, Hilen

Debir: Joshua 12:13, Joshua 15:49

Reciprocal: Joshua 10:38 - Debir

Cross-References

Genesis 21:1
The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as he had promised.
Genesis 21:3
Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac.
Genesis 21:14
So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Genesis 21:22
At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, "God is with you in all that you do.
Genesis 21:25
When Abraham reproved Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech's servants had seized,
2 Kings 3:9
So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom. And when they had made a circuitous march of seven days, there was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them.
Psalms 63:1

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Isaiah 44:12
The ironsmith takes a cutting tool and works it over the coals. He fashions it with hammers and works it with his strong arm. He becomes hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water and is faint.
Jeremiah 14:3
Her nobles send their servants for water; they come to the cisterns; they find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed and confounded and cover their heads.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Holon with her suburbs,.... :-;

and Debir with her suburbs; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The thirteen priestly cities (see the marginal references) were all in the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin. Thus, as Calvin remarks, God so overruled it that the priestly families were placed upon the spot which He had determined before hand to choose as the site of His temple.


 
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