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Hebrew Names Version

Joshua 21:14

and Yattir with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Eshtemoa;   Jattir;   Levites;   Priest;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Aaronites;   Eshtemoa;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Levite;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Eshtemoa;   Jattir;   Judah, Tribe of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Eshtemoa;   Jattir;   Judah;   Levi;   Mary, the Virgin;   Priest;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Eshtemoa;   Joshua, the Book of;   Kohathites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Eshtemoa;   Ithrite, the;   Jattir;   Joshua;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Suburb;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Eshtemoa , Eshtemoh ;   Jattir ;   Kohath, Kohathites ;   Levites ;   Refuge, Cities of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Eshtem'o-A,;   Jat'tir;   Priest;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Eshtemoa;   Ira;   Jattir;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Eshtemoa;   Levi ;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Jattir with its pasturelands, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands,
King James Version
And Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs,
Lexham English Bible
Jattir and its pasturelands, Eshtemoa and its pasturelands,
English Standard Version
Jattir with its pasturelands, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands,
New Century Version
Jattir, Eshtemoa,
New English Translation
Jattir, Eshtemoa,
Amplified Bible
and Jattir with its pasture lands and Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,
New American Standard Bible
Jattir with its pasture lands, Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Iattir with her suburbes, and Eshtemoa, and her suburbes,
Legacy Standard Bible
Jattir with its pasture lands, Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,
Complete Jewish Bible
Yatir with its surrounding open land; Esht'moa with its surrounding open land;
Darby Translation
and Jattir and its suburbs, and Eshtemoa and its suburbs,
Easy-to-Read Version
Jattir, Eshtemoa,
George Lamsa Translation
And Jarath with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs.
Good News Translation
Jattir, Eshtemoa,
Literal Translation
and Jattir and its open lands, and Eshtemoa and its open lands,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Iathir and the suburbes therof, Esthuma and the suburbes therof,
American Standard Version
and Jattir with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs,
Bible in Basic English
And Jattir with its grass-lands, and Eshtemoa with its grass-lands;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Iathir with her suburbes, and Estemoa with he suburbes:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and Jattir with the open land about it, and Eshtemoa with the open land about it;
King James Version (1611)
And Iattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and Ælom and its suburbs; and Tema and its suburbs;
English Revised Version
and Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs;
Berean Standard Bible
Jattir, Eshtemoa,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Jether, and Yschymon,
Young's Literal Translation
and Jattir and its suburbs, and Eshtemoa and its suburbs,
Update Bible Version
and Jattir with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs,
Webster's Bible Translation
And Jattir with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs,
World English Bible
and Jattir with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs,
New King James Version
Jattir with its common-land, Eshtemoa with its common-land,
New Living Translation
Jattir, Eshtemoa,
New Life Bible
And they gave them Jattir with its fields, Eshtemoa with its fields,
New Revised Standard
Jattir with its pasture lands, Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and Jattir with her pasture land, and Eshtemoa with her pasture land;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jether and Estemo,
Revised Standard Version
Jattir with its pasture lands, Eshtemo'a with its pasture lands,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and Jattir with its pasture lands and Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,

Contextual Overview

9 They gave out of the tribe of the children of Yehudah, and out of the tribe of the children of Shim`on, these cities which are [here] mentioned by name: 10 and they were for the children of Aharon, of the families of the Kehati, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot. 11 They gave them Kiryat-Arba, [which Arba was] the father of `Anak (the same is Hevron), in the hill-country of Yehudah, with the suburbs of it round about it. 12 But the fields of the city, and the villages of it, gave they to Kalev the son of Yefunneh for his possession. 13 To the children of Aharon the Kohen they gave Hevron with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Livna with its suburbs, 14 and Yattir with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs, 15 and Holon with its suburbs, and Devir with its suburbs, 16 and `Ayin with its suburbs, and Yuttah with its suburbs, [and] Beit-Shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes. 17 Out of the tribe of Binyamin, Giv`on with its suburbs, Geva with its suburbs, 18 `Anatot with its suburbs, and `Almon with its suburbs; four cities.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jattir: Jattir or Jether, according to Eusebius, was situated in the district of Daroma, or the southern part of Judah, 20 miles - south from Eleutheropolis, towards the city of Malatha. Joshua 15:48, 1 Samuel 30:27, 1 Samuel 30:28

Eshtemoa: Eusebius says Eshtemoa, or Esthema, was a great city in the south of Judah, and in the district of Eleutheropolis, north of that city. Joshua 15:50, Eshtemoh

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 6:57 - Libnah

Cross-References

Genesis 16:7
The angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
Genesis 19:27
Avraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
Genesis 21:6
Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me."
Genesis 21:7
She said, "Who would have said to Avraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."
Genesis 21:23
Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have sojourned."
Genesis 21:25
Avraham complained to Avimelekh because of a water well, which Avimelekh's servants had violently taken away.
Genesis 21:31
Therefore he called that place Be'er-Sheva, because they both swore there.
Genesis 21:33
Avraham planted a tamarisk tree in Be'er-Sheva, and called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.
Genesis 22:3
Avraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Yitzchak his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.
Genesis 22:19
So Avraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Be'er-Sheva. Avraham lived at Be'er-Sheva.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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

and Eshtemoa 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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