Joshua 19:6

King James Version

And Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen—thirteen cities, with their settlements;

Hebrew Names Version
and Beit-Leva'ot, and Sharuchen; thirteen cities with their villages:

Lexham English Bible
Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages.

English Standard Version
Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen—thirteen cities with their villages;

New Century Version
Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen. There were thirteen towns and their villages.

New English Translation
Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen—a total of thirteen cities and their towns,

Amplified Bible
and Beth-lebaoth and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages;

New American Standard Bible
Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages;

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen: thirteene cities with their villages.

Legacy Standard Bible
and Beth-lebaoth and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages;

Complete Jewish Bible
Beit-L'va'ot and Sharuchen — thirteen cities, together with their villages;

Darby Translation
and Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen: thirteen cities and their hamlets;

Easy-to-Read Version
Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen. There were 13 towns and all the fields around them.

George Lamsa Translation
Beth-lebaoth, and Sharwenan; fourteen cities and their villages;

Good News Translation
Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen: thirteen cities, along with the towns around them.

Literal Translation
and Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Beth Lebaoth, and Saruhen: these are thirtene cities & their vyllages.

American Standard Version
and Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages:

Bible in Basic English
And Beth-lebaoth and Sharuhen; thirteen towns with their unwalled places;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Bethlebaoth, & Saruhen, thirteene cities with their villages.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
and Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages:

King James Version (1611)
And Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen: thirteene cities and their villages.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and Batharoth, and their fields, thirteen cities, and their villages.

English Revised Version
and Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages:

Berean Standard Bible
Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen-thirteen cities, along with their villages.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Bethelebaoth, and Saroem, threttene citees, and `the townes of tho;

Young's Literal Translation
and Beth-Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages.

Update Bible Version
and Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages:

Webster's Bible Translation
And Beth-lebaoth, and Sheruhen; thirteen cities and their villages:

World English Bible
and Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages:

New King James Version
Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen: thirteen cities and their villages;

New Living Translation
Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen—thirteen towns with their surrounding villages.

New Life Bible
Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen, thirteen cities with the towns around them.

New Revised Standard
Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen—thirteen towns with their villages;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen, - thirteen cities, with their villages:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Bethlebaoth and Sarohen: thirteen cities, and their villages.

Revised Standard Version
Beth-leba'oth, and Sharu'hen--thirteen cities with their villages;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and Beth-lebaoth and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages;

Contextual Overview

¹ And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah. ² And they had in their inheritance Beersheba, and Sheba, and Moladah, ³ And Hazarshual, and Balah, and Azem, ⁴ And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah, ⁵ And Ziklag, and Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusah, ⁶ And Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages: ⁷ Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages: ⁸ And all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalathbeer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. ⁹ Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Bethlebaoth: Joshua 15:32

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 4:31 - and Hazarsusim

Cross-References

Judges 19:23
And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen,.... Whether the first is the same with Lebaoth, a city of Judah, Joshua 15:32; and with the Bethleptepha of Josephus b, and the Betholene of Pliny c, is not certain: in this place secret to have been an idol temple of the Canaanites, dedicated to lions, as in Egypt there was a city called Leontopolis, from whence was the Leontopolitan nome, the inhabitants of which worshipped lions d; and the Egyptians had temples dedicated to them, as Aelianus e relates. Both these places are thought to be the same with Bethbirei and Shaaraim in 1 Chronicles 4:31; of the latter of which see Joshua 15:36. Those who take Sheba, Joshua 19:2, to be the same with Shema, Joshua 15:26, make but one city here, and take away the last, as the Greek version does, and render the word "and their fields", and so the number still is as follows:

thirteen cities and their villages; the sum total of those enumerated above.

b De Jud. Bell. l. 4. c. 8. sect. 1. c Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 14. d Strabo. Geograph. l. 17. p. 559. e De Animal. l. 12. c. 7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The inheritance of Simeon was taken out of the portion of Judah, which proved on experience to be larger than the numbers of that tribe required. The Simeonite territory is described by its towns, of which fourteen were in the Negeb, and four others Joshua 19:7 partly in the Negeb and partly in “the valley.” On the narrow confines here assigned to Simeon, and its insignificant position altogether among the Twelve tribes, see Deuteronomy 33:6 note.

Joshua 19:6

Thirteen - Fourteen names have been given. The error is probably due to the use of letters for numbers, which has led to many similar mistakes in other places (see Joshua 15:32).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 19:6. Beth-lebaoth — The house or city of lionesses. Probably so called from the numbers of those animals which bred there.