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Joshua 21:31

Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four cities.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Helkath;   Levites;   Rehob;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Rehob;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Levite;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gershon;   Helkath;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gershon;   Helkath;   Levi;   Rehob (2);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Helkath;   Hukkok;   Joshua, the Book of;   Rehob;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gershon, Gershonites;   Helkath;   Joshua;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Suburb;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gershon, Gershonites ;   Helkath ;   Levites ;   Refuge, Cities of;   Rehob ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Hel'hath;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gershon;   Helkath;   Rehob;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Levi ;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Helkath with its pasturelands, and Rehob with its pasturelands—four cities.
Hebrew Names Version
Helkat with its suburbs, and Rechov with its suburbs; four cities.
King James Version
Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs; four cities.
Lexham English Bible
Helkath and its pasturelands, Rehob and its pasturelands; four cities.
English Standard Version
Helkath with its pasturelands, and Rehob with its pasturelands—four cities;
New Century Version
Helkath, and Rehob, and the pastures around these four towns.
New English Translation
Helkath, and Rehob, along with the grazing areas of each—a total of four cities;
Amplified Bible
Helkath with its pasture lands and Rehob with its pasture lands; four cities.
New American Standard Bible
Helkath with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands; four cities.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Helkah with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbes: foure cities.
Legacy Standard Bible
Helkath with its pasture lands and Rehob with its pasture lands; four cities.
Complete Jewish Bible
Helkat with its surrounding open land and Rechov with its surrounding open land — four cities.
Darby Translation
Helkath and its suburbs, and Rehob and its suburbs: four cities;
Easy-to-Read Version
Helkath, and Rehob. In all, Asher gave them four towns and some land around each town for their animals.
George Lamsa Translation
Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four cities with their suburbs.
Good News Translation
Helkath, and Rehob, with their pasture lands.
Literal Translation
Helkath and its open lands, Rehob and its open lands; four cities.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Helkath and Rehob with the suburbes therof.
American Standard Version
Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four cities.
Bible in Basic English
Helkath and Rehob with their grass-lands, four towns.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Helcath with her suburbes, and Rohob with her suburbes, foure cities.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Helkath with the open land about it, and Rehob with the open land about it; four cities.
King James Version (1611)
Helkah with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs, foure cities.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and Chelcat and its suburbs; and Raab and its suburbs; four cities.
English Revised Version
Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs; four cities.
Berean Standard Bible
Helkath, and Rehob-four cities, along with their pasturelands.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Elecath, and Roob, with her subarbis; `foure citees.
Young's Literal Translation
Helkath and its suburbs, and Rehob and its suburbs -- four cities.
Webster's Bible Translation
Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four cities.
World English Bible
Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four cities.
New King James Version
Helkath with its common-land, and Rehob with its common-land: four cities;
New Living Translation
Helkath, and Rehob—four towns.
New Life Bible
Helkath with its fields, and Rehob with its fields, four cities.
New Revised Standard
Helkath with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands—four towns.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Helkath, with her pasture land, and Rehob, with her pasture land, - four cities.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Helcath, and Rohob, with their suburbs, four cities.
Revised Standard Version
Helkath with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands--four cities;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Helkath with its pasture lands and Rehob with its pasture lands; four cities.

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 [here] mentioned by name: 10 and they were for the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the sons of Levi; for theirs was the first lot. 11 And they gave them Kiriath-arba, [Arba was] the father of Anak (the same is Hebron), in the hill-country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it. 12 But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession. 13 And to the sons of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its suburbs-the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Libnah with its suburbs, 14 and Jattir with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs, 15 and Holon with its suburbs, and Debir with its suburbs, 16 and Ashan with its suburbs, and Juttah with its suburbs, [and] Beth-shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes. 17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its suburbs, Geba with its suburbs, 18 Anathoth with its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs; four cities.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Rehob: See note on Numbers 13:21. Judges 1:31, Judges 18:21, 1 Chronicles 6:75

Reciprocal: Joshua 2:1 - harlot's house Joshua 19:30 - Rehob

Cross-References

Genesis 21:14
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and [gave her] the boy, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
Genesis 26:23
And he went up from there to Beer-sheba.
Genesis 26:33
And he called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.
Joshua 15:28
and Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba and its towns,
Judges 20:1
Then all the sons of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah.
2 Samuel 17:11
But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.
1 Kings 4:25
And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig-tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Helkath with her suburbs,.... :-; the same with Hukok in 1 Chronicles 6:75;

and Rehob with her suburbs, four cities; 1 Chronicles 6:75- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Joshua 19:18, etc. Of the cities of the Gershonites, for Beesh-terah read (Beeshterah.) The name is a contraction of Beth-Ashterah (“house of Ashterah”) and the city is undoubtedly the Ashtaroth or Astaroth of Og Joshua 12:4; Deu 1:4; 1 Chronicles 6:71.


 
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