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Green's Literal Translation

Joshua 21:14

and Jattir and its open lands, and Eshtemoa and its open lands,

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,
Hebrew Names Version
and Yattir with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs,
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,
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 And they gave out of the tribe of the sons of Judah, and out of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, these cities which are called by name, 10 which the sons of Aaron had, being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the sons of Levi. For theirs was the first lot. 11 And they gave them the City of Arba, the father of Anak (which is Hebron) in the hills of Judah, with its open lands around it. 12 But the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his own. 13 So they gave Hebron and its open lands to the sons of Aaron the priest as a city of refuge for the slayer, and Libnah and its open lands, 14 and Jattir and its open lands, and Eshtemoa and its open lands, 15 and Holon and its open lands, and Debir and its open lands, 16 and Ain and its open lands, and Juttah and its open lands, and Beth-shemesh and its open lands; nine cities out of those two tribes. 17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon and its open lands, Geba and its open lands, 18 Anathoth and its open lands, and Almon and its open lands; 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
And the Angel of Jehovah found her by a well of water in the wilderness; by the well in the way of Shur.
Genesis 19:27
And Abraham started up early in the morning, going to the place where he had stood there before Jehovah.
Genesis 21:6
And Sarah said, God has made laughter for me; all who hear will laugh with me.
Genesis 21:7
And she said, Who would have said to Abraham, Will Sarah suckle sons? For I have borne a son to his old age.
Genesis 21:23
And now swear to me here by God, that you will not lie to me, and to my son, and to my heir, according to the kindness which I have sworn to you. Do to me and to the land in which you have lived.
Genesis 21:25
And Abraham reproved Abimelech on account of a well of water which the slaves of Abimelech had seized.
Genesis 21:31
On account of this that place is called The Well of Sheba, because the two of them swore there.
Genesis 21:33
And he planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he called on the name of Jehovah the everlasting God.
Genesis 22:3
And Abraham started up early in the morning and saddled his ass, and he took two of his youths with him, and his son Isaac. And he split wood for a burnt offering, and rose up and went to the place which God had said to him.
Genesis 22:19
And Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham lived at Beer-sheba.

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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