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Geneva Bible

Joshua 21:18

Anathoth with her suburbes, and Almon with her suburbes: foure cities.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Almon;   Levites;   Priest;   Thompson Chain Reference - Anathoth;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Aaronites;   Anathoth;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Levite;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Alemeth;   Almon;   Anathoth;   Judah, Tribe of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Alemeth;   Anathoth;   Judah;   Levi;   Priest;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Alemeth;   Anathoth;   Joshua, the Book of;   Kohathites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Allemeth;   Anathoth;   Benjamin;   Joshua;   Kohath, Kohathites;   Libnah;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Suburb;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Alemeth ;   Almon ;   Anathoth ;   Kohath, Kohathites ;   Levites ;   Refuge, Cities of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Anathoth;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Al'mon;   An'athoth,;   Priest;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Jeremiah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abiathar;   Allemeth;   Almon;   Anathoth;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Almon;   Anathoth;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Almon;   Anathoth;   Bahurim;   Levi ;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Anathoth with its pasturelands, and Almon with its pasturelands—four cities.
Hebrew Names Version
`Anatot with its suburbs, and `Almon with its suburbs; four cities.
King James Version
Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs; four cities.
Lexham English Bible
Anathoth and its pasturelands, Almon and its pasturelands; four cities.
English Standard Version
Anathoth with its pasturelands, and Almon with its pasturelands—four cities.
New Century Version
Anathoth, and Almon. They gave them these four towns and the pastures around them.
New English Translation
Anathoth, and Almon, along with the grazing areas of each—a total of four cities.
Amplified Bible
Anathoth with its pasture lands and Almon with its pasture lands; four cities.
New American Standard Bible
Anathoth with its pasture lands, and Almon with its pasture lands; four cities.
Legacy Standard Bible
Anathoth with its pasture lands and Almon with its pasture lands; four cities.
Complete Jewish Bible
‘Anatot with its surrounding open land and ‘Almon with its surrounding open land — four cities.
Darby Translation
Anathoth and its suburbs, and Almon and its suburbs; four cities.
Easy-to-Read Version
Anathoth, and Almon. They gave them these four towns and some of the land near the towns for their animals.
George Lamsa Translation
Anathoth with its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs: four cities.
Good News Translation
Anathoth, and Almon, with their pasture lands.
Literal Translation
Anathoth and its open lands, and Almon and its open lands; four cities.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Anathot and the suburbes therof, Almon and the suburbes therof:
American Standard Version
Anathoth with its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs; four cities.
Bible in Basic English
Anathoth and Almon with their grass-lands, four towns.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Anatoth with her suburbes, Almon with her suburbes, foure cities.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Anathoth with the open land about it, and Almon with the open land about it; four cities.
King James Version (1611)
Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs, foure cities.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and Anathoth and its suburbs; and Gamala and its suburbs; four cities.
English Revised Version
Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs; four cities.
Berean Standard Bible
Anathoth, and Almon-four cities, along with their pasturelands.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
`foure citees.
Young's Literal Translation
Anathoth and its suburbs, and Almon and its suburbs -- four cities;
Update Bible Version
Anathoth with its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs; four cities.
Webster's Bible Translation
Anathoth with its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs; four cities.
World English Bible
Anathoth with its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs; four cities.
New King James Version
Anathoth with its common-land, and Almon with its common-land: four cities.
New Living Translation
Anathoth, and Almon—four towns.
New Life Bible
Anathoth with its fields, and Almon with its fields, four cities.
New Revised Standard
Anathoth with its pasture lands, and Almon with its pasture lands—four towns.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Anathoth, with her pasture land, and Almon, with her pasture land, - four cities.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Anathoth and Almon, with, their suburbs: four cities.
Revised Standard Version
An'athoth with its pasture lands, and Almon with its pasture lands--four cities.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Anathoth with its pasture lands and Almon with its pasture lands; four cities.

Contextual Overview

9 And they gaue out of the tribe of the children of Iudah, & out of the tribe of the children of Simeo, these cities which are here named. 10 And they were the childrens of Aaron being of the families of the Kohathites, and of the sonnes of Leui, (for theirs was the first lot) 11 So they gaue them Kiriath-arba of the father of Anok (which is Hebron) in the mountaine of Iudah, with the suburbes of the same round about it. 12 (But the lande of the citie, and the villages thereof, gaue they to Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh to be his possession) 13 Thus they gaue to the children of Aaron the Priest, a citie of refuge for the slaier, euen Hebron with her suburbes, and Libnah with her suburbes, 14 And Iattir with her suburbes, and Eshtemoa, and her suburbes, 15 And Holon with her suburbes, and Debir with her suburbes, 16 And Ain with her suburbes, and Iuttah with her suburbes, Beth-shemesh wt her suburbes: nine cities out of those two tribes. 17 And out of the tribe of Beniamin they gaue Gibeon with her suburbes, Geba with her suburbes, 18 Anathoth with her suburbes, and Almon with her suburbes: foure cities.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Anathoth: Anathoth was situated about three miles northward from Jerusalem according to Eusebius and Jerome - in Jeremiah 1:20, or twenty furlongs, according to Josephus. Ant. I. x. c. 7 sec. 3. 1 Kings 2:26, Isaiah 10:30, Jeremiah 1:1

Almon: 1 Chronicles 6:60, Alemeth

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 16:5 - Bahurim Ezra 2:23 - Anathoth Nehemiah 11:32 - Anathoth Jeremiah 32:7 - Anathoth Jeremiah 37:12 - the land

Cross-References

Genesis 16:10
Againe the Angel of the Lorde saide vnto her, I will so greatly increase thy seede, that it shal not be numbred for multitude.
Genesis 17:20
And as concerning Ishmael, I haue heard thee: loe, I haue blessed him, and will make him fruitfull, and will multiplie him exceedingly: twelue princes shall he beget, and I will make a great nation of him.
Genesis 21:12
But God said vnto Abraham, Let it not be grieuous in thy sight for the childe, and for thy bonde woman: in all that Sarah shall say vnto thee, heare her voyce: for in Izhak shall thy seede be called.
Genesis 21:13
As for the sonne of the bond woman, I will make him a nation also, because he is thy seede.
Genesis 21:18
Arise, take vp the childe, and holde him in thine hand: for I will make of him a great people.
Genesis 21:29
Then Abimelech said vnto Abraham, What meane these seuen lambes, which thou hast set by themselues?
Genesis 21:31
Wherefore the place is called Beer-sheba, because there they both sware.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Anathoth with her suburbs,.... This is not mentioned among the cities of Benjamin, Joshua 18:11; it was the native place of the Prophet Jeremiah, Joshua 18:11- :; it lay about two or three miles north of Jerusalem; three, says, Jerom k. Rauwolff l speaks of it as a small village, when he travelled into those parts, and as lying on a height or eminence, and which was within twenty furlongs of Jerusalem, as Josephus writes m:

and Almon with her suburbs; this also is not mentioned among the cities of Benjamin, Joshua 18:11; it is called Alemeth, 1 Chronicles 6:60. Jarchi and Kimchi say it is the same with Bahurim, 2 Samuel 3:16; where the Targum renders it by Almeth, and both words signify the same thing, "youth":

four cities; which were a large number for so small a tribe as little Benjamin to give.

k De loc. Heb. fol. 88. H. l Travels, par. 3. c. 2. p. 216. m Antiqu. l. 10. c. 7. sect. 3.

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 21:18. Anathoth. — Celebrated as the birthplace of Jeremiah, about three miles northward of Jerusalem, according to St. Jerome.


 
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