Numbers 32:37

THE MESSAGE

The Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, and Kiriathaim, also Nebo and Baal Meon and Sibmah. They renamed the cities that they rebuilt.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The children of Re'uven built Heshbon, and El`aleh, and Kiryatayim,

King James Version
And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,

Lexham English Bible
The descendants of Reuben rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,

English Standard Version
And the people of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

New Century Version
The Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

New English Translation
The Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

Amplified Bible
The sons of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

New American Standard Bible
The sons of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,

Legacy Standard Bible
And the sons of Reuben built Heshbon and Elealeh and Kiriathaim,

Contemporary English Version
The tribe of Reuben rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

Complete Jewish Bible
The descendants of Re'uven built Heshbon, El‘aleh, Kiryatayim,

Darby Translation
—And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elaleh, and Kirjathaim,

Easy-to-Read Version
The people of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

George Lamsa Translation
And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Koriathaim,

Good News Translation
The tribe of Reuben rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

Christian Standard Bible®
The Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

Literal Translation
And the sons of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The children of Ruben buylded He?bo, Eleale, Kiriathaim,

American Standard Version
And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,

Bible in Basic English
And the children of Reuben were the builders of Heshbon and Elealeh and Kiriathaim;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the children of Ruben built Hesbon, Eleale, Kiriathaim,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim;

King James Version (1611)
And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the sons of Ruben built Esebon, and Eleale, and Kariatham,

English Revised Version
And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim;

Berean Standard Bible
The Reubenites built up Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe the sones of Ruben bildiden Esebon, and Eleale, and Cariathiarym, and Nabo,

Young's Literal Translation
And the sons of Reuben have build Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,

Update Bible Version
And the sons of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,

Webster's Bible Translation
And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,

World English Bible
The children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,

New King James Version
And the children of Reuben built Heshbon and Elealeh and Kirjathaim,

New Living Translation
The descendants of Reuben built the towns of Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

New Life Bible
The sons of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

New Revised Standard
And the Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the sons of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, - and Kiriathaim,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the children of Ruben built Hesebon, and Eleale, and Cariathaim,

Revised Standard Version
And the sons of Reuben built Heshbon, Elea'leh, Kiriatha'im,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The sons of Reuben built Heshbon and Elealeh and Kiriathaim,

Contextual Overview

²⁸So Moses issued orders for them to Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the ancestral tribes of the People of Israel. Moses said, "If the families of Gad and Reuben cross the Jordan River with you and before God , all armed and ready to fight, then after the land is secure, you may give them the land of Gilead as their inheritance. But if they don't cross over with you, they'll have to settle up with you in Canaan." ³¹The families of Gad and Reuben responded: "We will do what God has said. We will cross the Jordan before God , ready and willing to fight. But the land we inherit will be here, to the east of the Jordan." ³³ Moses gave the families of Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og, king of Bashan—the land, its towns, and all the territories connected with them—the works. ³⁴The Gadites rebuilt Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer, Atroth Shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah, Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran as fortified cities; they also built corrals for their animals. ³⁷The Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, and Kiriathaim, also Nebo and Baal Meon and Sibmah. They renamed the cities that they rebuilt. ³⁹The family of Makir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, captured it, and drove out the Amorites who lived there. Moses then gave Gilead to the Makirites, the descendants of Manasseh. They moved in and settled there. ⁴¹ Jair, another son of Manasseh, captured some villages and named them Havvoth Jair (Jair's Tent-Camps). ⁴² Nobah captured Kenath and its surrounding camps. He renamed it after himself, Nobah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Heshbon: Numbers 32:3, Numbers 21:27, Isaiah 15:4

Elealeh: Elealeh is placed, by Eusebius, a mile from Heshbon. It is now called El Aal, "the high," and is situated on a hill.

Reciprocal: Joshua 13:19 - And Kirjathaim Joshua 21:39 - Heshbon 1 Chronicles 6:76 - Kirjathaim 1 Chronicles 6:81 - Heshbon Jeremiah 48:1 - Nebo Jeremiah 48:2 - Heshbon Jeremiah 48:25 - and his Jeremiah 48:34 - Elealeh Ezekiel 25:9 - Baalmeon

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim. Heshbon was the royal city of Sihon king of the Amorites, and Elealeh was within a mile of it, see Numbers 32:3, this shows that those cities were not built anew properly, only repaired, for they were cities in being long before; besides, they had not time to build new cities, for in a few months after this they passed over Jordan; though indeed they left men enough behind to rebuild cities, whom they might set to work about them when they departed: Kirjathaim is, by the Targum of Jonathan, called the city of two streets paved with marble, and it adds, this is Beresha: Jerom t says, it is now called Coraiatha, which is pretty near its ancient name, and that it is ten miles from Medeba, a city of Arabia, mentioned as one of the cities in the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, Numbers 21:30.

t De loc. Heb. fol. 89. M.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Reubenites established themselves more compactly than the Gadites. Elcalch (el-’Al) a mile to the northeast; Nebo (Nebbeh) probably three miles to the southwest; Baal-meon (Main) nearly two miles to the south; Kirjathaim (Kureiyat?): and Shibmah, more properly Sibmah, famous at a later period for its vines (compare Isaiah 16:8), four miles east of Heshbon; all clustered round the old Amorite Capital. The Reubenites probably retained at the partition all these cities with the exception of Heshbon, which, passing to the Levites, were thenceforth reckoned as within the tribe of Gad.

Neither the Reubenites nor the Gadites were “builders” in the sense of founders of the cities of which they thus took possession. They probably fortified them, for the first time or afresh, so as to render them places of safety for their families during the campaigns on the other side of the Jordan; and provided them with all conveniences for their flocks and herds.