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Joshua 19:7

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ain;   Amam;   Ashan;   Ether;   Rimmon;   Simeon;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Simeon, the Tribe of;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Canaanites;   Dan;   Rimmon;   Simeon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Chor-Ashan;   Rimmon;   Simeon, the Tribe of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ain;   Enrimmon;   Ether;   Israel;   Judah;   Remmon;   Simeon;   Tochen;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ain;   Ashan;   Bor-Ashan;   En-Rimmon;   Etam;   Ether;   Remmon;   Rimmon;   Tochen;   Tribes of Israel, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ain;   Cor-Ashan;   En-Rimmon;   Ether;   Joshua;   Negeb,;   Rimmon;   Simeon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Aenon ;   Lots;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ain;   Ashan ;   Enrimmon ;   Ether ;   Rimmon ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Remmon;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ain;   Judah territory of;   Rimmon;   Simeon;   Smith Bible Dictionary - A'in;   A'shan;   En-Rim'mon;   E'tam;   E'ther;   Rim'mon;   Sim'eon;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ain (2);   Ashan;   En-Rimmon;   Ether;   Joshua (2);   Joshua, Book of;   Negeb;   Remmon;   Rimmon (1);   Tochen;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ain;   Ashan;   Ether;   Negeb;   Palestine;   Rimmon;   Simeon, Tribe of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan—four cities, with their settlements;
Hebrew Names Version
`Ayin, Rimmon, and `Eter, and `Ashan; four cities with their villages:
King James Version
Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:
Lexham English Bible
Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages,
English Standard Version
Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan—four cities with their villages,
New Century Version
They received the towns of Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan, four towns and their villages.
New English Translation
Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan—a total of four cities and their towns,
Amplified Bible
Ain, Rimmon and Ether and Ashan; four cities with their villages;
New American Standard Bible
Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages;
Geneva Bible (1587)
Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan: foure cities with their villages.
Legacy Standard Bible
Ain, Rimmon and Ether and Ashan; four cities with their villages;
Contemporary English Version
In another region, Simeon had the following four towns with their surrounding villages: Enrimmon, Tachan, Ether, and Ashan.
Complete Jewish Bible
‘Ayin, Rimmon, ‘Eter and ‘Ashan — four cities, together with their villages;
Darby Translation
Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan: four cities and their hamlets;
Easy-to-Read Version
They also got the towns of Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan. There were four towns and all the fields around them.
George Lamsa Translation
Ain, Remmon, Gather, and Ashan; four cities and their villages;
Good News Translation
There were also Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan: four cities, along with the towns around them.
Literal Translation
Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ain, Rimon, Ether, Asan: these are foure cities and their vyllages.
American Standard Version
Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages:
Bible in Basic English
Ain, Rimmon, and Ether and Ashan; four towns with their unwalled places;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ain, Remmon, Ether, & Asan, foure cities with their villages.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages;
King James Version (1611)
Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan: foure cities and their villages,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Eremmon, and Thalcha, and Jether, and Asan; four cities and their villages,
English Revised Version
Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages:
Berean Standard Bible
Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan-four cities, along with their villages,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Aym, and Remmon, and Athar, and Asam, foure citees, and `the townes of tho; alle the townes bi cumpas of these citees,
Young's Literal Translation
Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages;
Update Bible Version
En-rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan:
Webster's Bible Translation
Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:
World English Bible
Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages:
New King James Version
Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan: four cities and their villages;
New Living Translation
It also included Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan—four towns with their villages,
New Life Bible
There were Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan, four cities with their towns.
New Revised Standard
Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan—four towns with their villages;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ain, Rimmon, and Ether and Ashan, - four cities, with their villages,
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Remmon and Athor and Asan: four cities, and their villages.
Revised Standard Version
En-rimmon, Ether, and Ashan--four cities with their villages;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Ain, Rimmon and Ether and Ashan; four cities with their villages;

Contextual Overview

1The second lot went to Simeon for its clans. Their inheritance was within the territory of Judah. In their inheritance they had: Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah, Hazar Shual, Balah, Ezem, Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah, Ziklag, Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susah, Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen— thirteen towns and their villages. Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan— four towns and their villages—plus all the villages around these towns as far as Baalath Beer, the Ramah of the Negev. This is the inheritance of the tribe of Simeon according to its clans. The inheritance of Simeon came out of the share of Judah, because Judah's portion turned out to be more than they needed. That's how the people of Simeon came to get their lot from within Judah's portion. The third lot went to Zebulun, clan by clan: The border of their inheritance went all the way to Sarid. It ran west to Maralah, met Dabbesheth, and then went to the brook opposite Jokneam. In the other direction from Sarid, the border ran east; it followed the sunrise to the border of Kisloth Tabor, on to Daberath and up to Japhia. It continued east to Gath Hepher and Eth Kazin, came out at Rimmon, and turned toward Neah. There the border went around on the north to Hannathon and ran out into the Valley of Iphtah El. It included Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem—twelve cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the people of Zebulun for their clans—these towns and their villages. The fourth lot went to Issachar, clan by clan. Their territory included: Jezreel, Kesulloth, Shunem, Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath, Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez, Remeth, En Gannim, En Haddah, and Beth Pazzez. The boundary touched Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh and ended at the Jordan—sixteen towns and their villages. These towns with their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Issachar, clan by clan. The fifth lot went to the tribe of Asher, clan by clan: Their territory included Helkath, Hali, Beten, Acshaph, Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal. The western border touched Carmel and Shihor Libnath, then turned east toward Beth Dagon, touched Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtah El, and went north to Beth Emek and Neiel, skirting Cabul on the left. It went on to Abdon, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah, all the way to Greater Sidon. The border circled back toward Ramah, extended to the fort city of Tyre, turned toward Hosah, and came out at the Sea in the region of Aczib, Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob—twenty-two towns and their villages. These towns and villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Asher, clan by clan. The sixth lot came to Naphtali and its clans. Their border ran from Heleph, from the oak at Zaanannim, passing Adami Nekeb and Jabneel to Lakkum and ending at the Jordan. The border returned on the west at Aznoth Tabor and came out at Hukkok, meeting Zebulun on the south, Asher on the west, and the Jordan on the east. The fort cities were: Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Kinnereth, Adamah, Ramah, Hazor, Kedesh, Edrei, En Hazor, Iron, Migdal El, Horem, Beth Anath, and Beth Shemesh— nineteen towns and their villages. This is the inheritance of the tribe of Naphtali, the cities and their villages, clan by clan. The seventh lot fell to Dan. The territory of their inheritance included: Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir Shemesh, Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah, Elon, Timnah, Ekron, Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath, Jehud, Bene Berak, Gath Rimmon, Me Jarkon, and Rakkon, with the region facing Joppa. But the people of Dan failed to get rid of the Westerners (Amorites), who pushed them back into the hills. The Westerners kept them out of the plain and they didn't have enough room. So the people of Dan marched up and attacked Leshem. They took it, killed the inhabitants, and settled in. They renamed it Leshem Dan after the name of Dan their ancestor. This is the inheritance of the tribe of Dan, according to its clans, these towns with their villages. They completed the dividing of the land as inheritance and the setting of its boundaries. The People of Israel then gave an inheritance among them to Joshua son of Nun. In obedience to God 's word, they gave him the city which he had requested, Timnath Serah in the hill country of Ephraim. He rebuilt the city and settled there. These are the inheritances which Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun and the ancestral leaders assigned by lot to the tribes of Israel at Shiloh in the presence of God at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. They completed the dividing of the land. 9Simeon The second lot went to Simeon for its clans. Their inheritance was within the territory of Judah. In their inheritance they had: Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah, Hazar Shual, Balah, Ezem, Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah, Ziklag, Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susah, Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen— thirteen towns and their villages. Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan— four towns and their villages—plus all the villages around these towns as far as Baalath Beer, the Ramah of the Negev. This is the inheritance of the tribe of Simeon according to its clans. The inheritance of Simeon came out of the share of Judah, because Judah's portion turned out to be more than they needed. That's how the people of Simeon came to get their lot from within Judah's portion.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ain: Joshua 15:32

Remmon: Numbers 33:19, Numbers 33:20, 1 Chronicles 4:32, Rimmon

Ether: Joshua 15:42

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 30:30 - Chorashan

Cross-References

Genesis 19:4
Before they went to bed men from all over the city of Sodom, young and old, descended on the house from all sides and boxed them in. They yelled to Lot, "Where are the men who are staying with you for the night? Bring them out so we can have our sport with them!"
Genesis 19:9
They said, "Get lost! You drop in from nowhere and now you're going to tell us how to run our lives. We'll treat you worse than them!" And they charged past Lot to break down the door.
Genesis 19:23
The sun was high in the sky when Lot arrived at Zoar.
Genesis 19:24
Then God rained brimstone and fire down on Sodom and Gomorrah—a river of lava from God out of the sky!—and destroyed these cities and the entire plain and everyone who lived in the cities and everything that grew from the ground.
Leviticus 18:22
"Don't have sex with a man as one does with a woman. That is abhorrent.
Leviticus 20:13
"If a man has sex with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is abhorrent. They must be put to death; they are responsible for their own deaths.
Deuteronomy 23:17
No daughter of Israel is to become a sacred prostitute; and no son of Israel is to become a sacred prostitute. And don't bring the fee of a sacred whore or the earnings of a priest-pimp to the house of God, your God, to pay for any vow—they are both an abomination to God , your God.
Judges 19:23
He went out and told them, "No, brothers! Don't be obscene—this man is my guest. Don't commit this outrage. Look, my virgin daughter and his concubine are here. I'll bring them out for you. Abuse them if you must, but don't do anything so senselessly vile to this man."
Romans 1:24
So God said, in effect, "If that's what you want, that's what you get." It wasn't long before they were living in a pigpen, smeared with filth, filthy inside and out. And all this because they traded the true God for a fake god, and worshiped the god they made instead of the God who made them—the God we bless, the God who blesses us. Oh, yes!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ain, Remmon,.... Of the two first, which were cities of Judah,

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and Ether, and Ashan; of the two last, see Gill "Jos 19:42";

four cities and their villages; Ain, Remmon, therefore, could not be one city, at this time, as it seems to have been in the times of Nehemiah, Nehemiah 11:29; or otherwise there would have been but three cities.

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).


 
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