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New Living Translation

1 Samuel 13:18

another went west to Beth-horon, and the third moved toward the border above the valley of Zeboim near the wilderness.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Beth-Horon;   Zeboim;   Thompson Chain Reference - Beth-Horon;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Philistines, the;   Valleys;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Zeboim;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Palestine;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Zeboim;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Benjamin;   Beth Dagon;   Hyena;   Zeboim, Valley of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Animals;   Beth-Horon;   Hyena;   Ophrah;   Samuel, Books of;   Zeboim;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gibeah;   Hyaena;   Israel;   Jonathan;   Michmash;   Philistines;   Samuel, Books of;   Trade and Commerce;   Zeboim;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bethhoron ;   Michmas, Michmash ;   Zeboim, Valley of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jonathan;   Saul;   Zeboim;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Hyaena;   Zebo'im;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Zeboim;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hyena;   Philistines;   Vale;   Zeboiim;   Zeboim;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hyena;   Wilderness;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The next division headed toward the Beth-horon road, and the last division headed down the border road that looks out over the Zeboim Valley toward the wilderness.
Hebrew Names Version
and another company turned the way to Beit-Horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looks down on the valley of Tzevo`im toward the wilderness.
King James Version
And another company turned the way to Bethhoron: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
Lexham English Bible
One division turned on the road to Beth Horon, and one turned on the road toward the border overlooking the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
English Standard Version
another company turned toward Beth-horon; and another company turned toward the border that looks down on the Valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
New Century Version
The second group went on the Beth Horon road. The third group went on the border road that overlooks the Valley of Zeboim toward the desert.
New English Translation
another band turned toward the road leading to Beth Horon; and yet another band turned toward the road leading to the border that overlooks the valley of Zeboim in the direction of the desert.
Amplified Bible
another company turned toward Beth-horon, and another toward the border overlooking the Valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
New American Standard Bible
and another company turned toward Beth-horon, and another company turned toward the border that overlooks the Valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And another bad turned toward the way to Beth-horon, and the third band turned toward the way of the coast that loketh toward the valley of Zeboim, towarde the wildernesse.
Legacy Standard Bible
and another company turned to the way of Beth-horon, and another company turned to the way of the border which overlooks the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
Contemporary English Version
Another patrol would go west along the road to Beth-Horon. A third patrol would go east toward the desert on the road to the ridge that overlooks Zeboim Valley.
Complete Jewish Bible
another group took the road toward Beit-Horon; and another company took the road toward the desert through the territory overlooking Vadi Tzvo‘im.
Darby Translation
and another company turned the way to Beth-horon; and the other company turned the way to the district that looks over the ravine of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
Easy-to-Read Version
The second group went southeast on the road to Beth Horon, and the third group went east on the road to the border. That road looks over the Valley of Zeboim toward the desert.
George Lamsa Translation
And another went toward the way of Beth-hauran; and another turned toward the way of the border that looks toward the valley of Zebaon and to the wilderness.
Good News Translation
another went toward Beth Horon, and the other one went to the border overlooking Zeboim Valley and the wilderness.
Literal Translation
And another head turned the way to Beth-horon. And another head turned to the way of the border looking down on the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
another turned towarde the waye of Bethoron: the thirde turned towarde the waye, that reacheth to the valley of Zeboim vnto the wyldernes.
American Standard Version
and another company turned the way to Beth-horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looketh down upon the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
Bible in Basic English
And another went in the direction of Beth-horon: and another went by the hill looking down on the valley of Zeboiim, in the direction of the waste land.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And another companie turned the way to Bethoron: And the thirde companie turned to the way of the coast that is seene aboue ye valley of Zeboim toward the wildernesse.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and another company turned the way to Beth-horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looketh down upon the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
King James Version (1611)
And another company turned the way to Bethoron: and another companie turned to the way of the border, that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wildernesse.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and another company turning the way of Baethoron, and another company turning by the way of Gabae that turns aside to Gai of Sabim.
English Revised Version
and another company turned the way to Beth–horon: and another company turned the way of the border that looketh down upon the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
Berean Standard Bible
another toward Beth-horon, and the third down the border road overlooking the Valley of Zeboim facing the wilderness.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
sothely an other cumpeny entride bi the weie of Bethoron; forsothe the thridde cumpenye turnede it silf to the weie of the terme in the lond of Sabaa; and that terme neiyeth to the valey of Seboym ayens the deseert.
Young's Literal Translation
and the one detachment turneth the way of Beth-Horon, and the one detachment turneth the way of the border which is looking on the valley of the Zeboim, toward the wilderness.
Update Bible Version
and another company turned the way to Beth-horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looks down on the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
Webster's Bible Translation
And another company turned the way [to] Beth-horon: and another company turned [to] the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim towards the wilderness.
World English Bible
and another company turned the way to Beth-horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looks down on the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
New King James Version
another company turned to the road to Beth Horon, and another company turned to the road of the border that overlooks the Valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
New Life Bible
Another group turned toward Bethhoron. And another group turned toward the side of the country that looks over the valley of Zeboim toward the desert.
New Revised Standard
another company turned toward Beth-horon, and another company turned toward the mountain that looks down upon the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, the second company, turned unto the way of Beth-horon, - and, the third company, turned unto the way of the boundary that overlooketh the valley of Zeboim, towards the wilderness.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And another went by the way of Bethoron, and the third turned to the way of the border, above the valley of Seboim towards the desert.
Revised Standard Version
another company turned toward Beth-hor'on, and another company turned toward the border that looks down upon the valley of Zebo'im toward the wilderness.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and another company turned toward Beth-horon, and another company turned toward the border which overlooks the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

Contextual Overview

15 Samuel then left Gilgal and went on his way, but the rest of the troops went with Saul to meet the army. They went up from Gilgal to Gibeah in the land of Benjamin. When Saul counted the men who were still with him, he found only 600 were left! 16 Saul and Jonathan and the troops with them were staying at Geba in the land of Benjamin. The Philistines set up their camp at Micmash. 17 Three raiding parties soon left the camp of the Philistines. One went north toward Ophrah in the land of Shual, 18 another went west to Beth-horon, and the third moved toward the border above the valley of Zeboim near the wilderness. 19 There were no blacksmiths in the land of Israel in those days. The Philistines wouldn't allow them for fear they would make swords and spears for the Hebrews. 20 So whenever the Israelites needed to sharpen their plowshares, picks, axes, or sickles, they had to take them to a Philistine blacksmith. 21 The charges were as follows: a quarter of an ounce of silver for sharpening a plowshare or a pick, and an eighth of an ounce for sharpening an ax or making the point of an ox goad. 22 So on the day of the battle none of the people of Israel had a sword or spear, except for Saul and Jonathan. 23 The pass at Micmash had meanwhile been secured by a contingent of the Philistine army.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Bethhoron: Joshua 10:11, Joshua 16:3, Joshua 16:5, Joshua 18:13, Joshua 18:14, 1 Chronicles 6:68, 2 Chronicles 8:5

Zeboim: Genesis 14:2, Nehemiah 11:34, Hosea 11:8

Reciprocal: Joshua 10:10 - Bethhoron 2 Kings 5:2 - by companies

Cross-References

Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord , and there he sacrificed as burnt offerings the animals and birds that had been approved for that purpose.
Genesis 13:4
This was the same place where Abram had built the altar, and there he worshiped the Lord again.
Genesis 13:7
So disputes broke out between the herdsmen of Abram and Lot. (At that time Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land.)
Genesis 13:8
Finally Abram said to Lot, "Let's not allow this conflict to come between us or our herdsmen. After all, we are close relatives!
Genesis 14:13
But one of Lot's men escaped and reported everything to Abram the Hebrew, who was living near the oak grove belonging to Mamre the Amorite. Mamre and his relatives, Eshcol and Aner, were Abram's allies.
Genesis 18:1
The Lord appeared again to Abraham near the oak grove belonging to Mamre. One day Abraham was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest part of the day.
Genesis 23:2
she died at Kiriath-arba (now called Hebron) in the land of Canaan. There Abraham mourned and wept for her.
Genesis 35:27
So Jacob returned to his father, Isaac, in Mamre, which is near Kiriath-arba (now called Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had both lived as foreigners.
Genesis 37:14
"Go and see how your brothers and the flocks are getting along," Jacob said. "Then come back and bring me a report." So Jacob sent him on his way, and Joseph traveled to Shechem from their home in the valley of Hebron.
Numbers 13:22
Going north, they passed through the Negev and arrived at Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai—all descendants of Anak—lived. (The ancient town of Hebron was founded seven years before the Egyptian city of Zoan.)

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And another company turned the way to Bethhoron,.... Of which name there were two cities, the upper and nether, and both in the tribe of Ephraim, of which see Joshua 16:3 this lay northwest from the camp of the Philistines at Michmash; eight miles from it, according to Bunting d:

and another company turned to the way of the border, that looketh towards the valley of Zeboim, toward the wilderness; some take this to be the Zeboim which was destroyed with Sodom and Gomorrah; and the wilderness, the wilderness of Jordan; but as that, so the valley in which it stood, was turned into a bituminous lake; this seems to be a city in the land of Benjamin, Nehemiah 11:34 near to which was a valley, and this towards the wilderness of Jericho, and so lay eastward; the Targum calls it the valley of vipers, perhaps from its being infested with many; and so David de Pomis e says it is the name of a place where plenty of serpents were found, and which he says were called so because of the variety of colours in them; with which agrees Kimchi's note on the place; they seem to mean serpents spotted f, as if they were painted and dyed of various colours, as the Hebrew word which is thus paraphrased signifies: according to Bunting g, it was eight miles from Michmash.

d Travels of the Patriarchs, &c. p. 133. e Tzemach David, fol. 13. 2. & 153. 1. f αιολον οφιν, Homer. Iliad. 12. ver. 208. "notis maculosus grandibus", Virgil. Georgic. l. 3. v. 427. g Ut supra. (Travels of the Patriarchs, &c. p. 133.)


 
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