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Geneva Bible

Joshua 21:33

Al the cities of the Gershonites according to their families, were thirteene cities with their suburbes.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Levites;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Levite;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gershon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Levi;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Joshua, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gershon, Gershonites;   Joshua;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Suburb;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gershon, Gershonites ;   Levites ;   Refuge, Cities of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gershon;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Levi ;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
All thirteen cities with their pasturelands were for the Gershonites by their clans.
Hebrew Names Version
All the cities of the Gershoni according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
King James Version
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Lexham English Bible
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities and their pasturelands.
English Standard Version
The cities of the several clans of the Gershonites were in all thirteen cities with their pasturelands.
New Century Version
So the Gershonite family groups received thirteen towns and the pastures around them.
New English Translation
The Gershonite clans received thirteen cities and their grazing areas.
Amplified Bible
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
New American Standard Bible
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
Legacy Standard Bible
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
Complete Jewish Bible
All the cities of the Gershuni according to their families were thirteen cities with their surrounding open land.
Darby Translation
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities and their suburbs.
Easy-to-Read Version
In all, the Gershon family groups got 13 towns and some land around each town for their animals.
George Lamsa Translation
All the cities of the families of the Gershonites were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Good News Translation
The various families of the clan of Gershon received a total of thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
Literal Translation
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities and their open land.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
so that all the cities of the kynred of the Gersonites were thirtene wt their suburbes.
American Standard Version
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Bible in Basic English
All the towns of the Gershonites with their families were thirteen with their grass-lands.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
All the cities of ye Gersonites throughout their kynredes, were thirteene cities with their suburbes,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with the open land about them.
King James Version (1611)
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
All the cities of Gedson according to their families were thirteen cities.
English Revised Version
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Berean Standard Bible
Altogether thirteen cities with their pasturelands were given to the Gershonite clans.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Alle the citees of the meynees of Gerson weren threttene, with her subarbis.
Young's Literal Translation
all the cities of the Gershonite, for their families, [are] thirteen cities and their suburbs.
Update Bible Version
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Webster's Bible Translation
All the cities of the Gershonites, according to their families, [were] thirteen cities with their suburbs.
World English Bible
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
New King James Version
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their common-lands.
New Living Translation
So in all, thirteen towns with their pasturelands were allotted to the clan of Gershon.
New Life Bible
The cities for the families of the Gershonites were thirteen in all, with their fields.
New Revised Standard
The towns of the several families of the Gershonites were in all thirteen, with their pasture lands.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All, the cities of the Gershonites, by their families, were thirteen cities, with their pasture lands.
Douay-Rheims Bible
All the cities of the families of Gerson, were thirteen, with their suburbs.
Revised Standard Version
The cities of the several families of the Gershonites were in all thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
THE MESSAGE
For the Gershonites and their families: thirteen towns with their pastures.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.

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

Cross-References

Genesis 4:26
And to ye same Sheth also there was borne a sonne, and he called his name Enosh. Then beganne men to call vpon the name of the Lord.
Genesis 12:8
Afterward remouing thence vnto a moutaine Eastward from Beth-el, he pitched his tent hauing Beth-el on the Westside, & Haai on the East: and there he built an altar vnto the Lord, and called on the Name of the Lord.
Genesis 26:23
So he went vp thence to Beer-sheba.
Genesis 26:25
Then he builte an altar there, and called vpon the Name of the Lorde, and there spred his tent: where also Izhaks seruauntes digged a well.
Genesis 26:33
So hee called it Shibah: therefore the name of the citie is called Beer-sheba vnto this day.
Deuteronomy 16:21
Thou shalt plant thee no groue of any trees neere vnto the altar of the Lorde thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
Deuteronomy 33:27
The eternall God is thy refuge, and vnder his armes thou art for euer: hee shall cast out the enemie before thee, and will say, Destroy them.
Judges 3:7
So the children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the Lord, & forgate the Lorde their God, and serued Baalim, and Asheroth.
Psalms 90:2
Before the mountaines were made, and before thou hadst formed the earth, and the world, euen from euerlasting to euerlasting thou art our God.
Isaiah 40:28
Knowest thou not? or hast thou not heard, that the euerlasting God, the Lorde hath created the endes of the earth? he neither fainteth, nor is wearie: there is no searching of his vnderstanding.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All the cities of the Gershonites, according to their families,.... Which were divided among them, according to the number of their families:

[were] thirteen cities with their suburbs; two out of the half tribe of Manasseh beyond Jordan, four out of Issachar, four out of Asher, and three out of Naphtali.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Joshua 19:18, etc. Of the cities of the Gershonites, for Beesh-terah read (Beeshterah.) The name is a contraction of Beth-Ashterah (“house of Ashterah”) and the city is undoubtedly the Ashtaroth or Astaroth of Og Joshua 12:4; Deu 1:4; 1 Chronicles 6:71.


 
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