Joshua 18:25

World English Bible

Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

Hebrew Names Version
Giv`on, and Ramah, and Be'erot,

King James Version
Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,

Lexham English Bible
Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

English Standard Version
Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

New Century Version
The tribe of Benjamin also received Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

New English Translation
Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

Amplified Bible
Gibeon and Ramah and Beeroth,

New American Standard Bible
Gibeon, Ramah, and Beeroth,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,

Legacy Standard Bible
Gibeon and Ramah and Beeroth,

Contemporary English Version
In the other region there were the following fourteen towns with their surrounding villages: Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth, Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah, Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah, Zelah, Haeleph, Gibeah, Kiriath-Jearim, and Jerusalem, which is also called Jebusite Town. These regions are the tribal lands of Benjamin.

Complete Jewish Bible
Giv‘on, Ramah, Be'erot,

Darby Translation
Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,

Easy-to-Read Version
The tribe of Benjamin also got Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

George Lamsa Translation
Gibeon, Ramtha, Beeroth,

Good News Translation
There were also Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

Literal Translation
Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Gibeon, Rama, Beeroth,

American Standard Version
Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,

Bible in Basic English
Gibeon and Ramah and Beeroth

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Gabaon, Ramah, Beeroth,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth;

King James Version (1611)
Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Gabaon, and Rama, and Beerotha;

English Revised Version
Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth;

Berean Standard Bible
Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Gabaon, and Rama,

Young's Literal Translation
Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,

Update Bible Version
Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,

Webster's Bible Translation
Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,

New King James Version
Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

New Living Translation
Also Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

New Life Bible
And there were Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

New Revised Standard
Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Gibeon and Ramah, and Beeroth,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Gabam and Rama and Beroth,

Revised Standard Version
Gibeon, Ramah, Be-er'oth,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Gibeon and Ramah and Beeroth,

Contextual Overview

¹¹ The lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the border of their lot went out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph. ¹² Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill-country westward; and the goings out of it were at the wilderness of Beth-aven. ¹³ The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (the same is Bethel), southward; and the border went down to Ataroth-addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth-horon the lower. ¹⁴ The border extended [there], and turned about on the west quarter southward, from the mountain that lies before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out of it were at Kiriath-baal (the same is Kiriath-jearim), a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter. ¹⁵ The south quarter was from the uttermost part of Kiriath-jearim; and the border went out westward, and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah; ¹⁶ and the border went down to the uttermost part of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim northward; and it went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En-rogel; ¹⁷ and it extended northward, and went out at En-shemesh, and went out to Geliloth, which is over against the ascent of Adummim; and it went down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben; ¹⁸ and it passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward, and went down to the Arabah; ¹⁹ and the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward; and the goings out of the border were at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan: this was the south border. ²⁰ The Jordan was the border of it on the east quarter. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the borders of it round about, according to their families.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Gibeon: Joshua 9:17, Joshua 10:2, 1 Kings 3:4, 1 Kings 3:5, 1 Kings 9:2, Isaiah 28:21

Ramah: Situated, according to Eusebius, six miles from Jerusalem towards Bethel; though Jerome places it near Gaba, seven miles from Jerusalem. 1 Samuel 1:1, Ramathaim-zophim, Joshua 7:17, Joshua 15:34, Jeremiah 31:15, Matthew 27:57, Arimathea

Beeroth: Eusebius says Beeroth was seven miles from Jerusalem, towards Nicopolis or Emmaus. Jerome, however, reads Neapolis or Shechem; but Reland prefers the former.

Reciprocal: Joshua 21:17 - Gibeon Judges 4:5 - between Judges 19:13 - Gibeah 2 Samuel 2:12 - Gibeon 2 Samuel 4:2 - Beeroth 2 Samuel 20:14 - Berites 1 Kings 15:17 - Ramah Ezra 2:26 - Ramah Nehemiah 7:29 - Kirjathjearim Nehemiah 7:30 - Ramah Nehemiah 11:33 - Ramah Isaiah 10:29 - Ramah Jeremiah 40:1 - Ramah

Cross-References

Genesis 18:1
Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

Genesis 18:2
He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

Genesis 18:5
I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant." They said, "Very well, do as you have said."

Genesis 18:6
Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly make ready three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."

Genesis 18:7
Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.

Genesis 18:10
He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

Genesis 18:11
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. It had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

Genesis 18:12
Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"

Genesis 18:13
Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'

Genesis 18:17
Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Gibeon,.... Gibeon is the place from whence the Gibeonites came, who deceived Joshua, Joshua 9:3. Jerom says p, in his time there was a village shown of this name, four miles from Bethel to the east, near Ramah, next mentioned;

and Ramah, which Jerom relates q was six miles from Aelia or Jerusalem to the north, against Bethel. Rauwolff, a traveller in those parts, says r, that the town of Rama is situated on an ascent, in plain fields, which extend themselves for two leagues to the hill of the city of Jerusalem; these fields are very fruitful and well tilled, and sown with corn, cotton, and Indian millet; the town is pretty large, but very open, like unto a village, very pitifully built, where one may still see here and there some signs of old buildings;

and Beeroth was a city that belonged to the Gibeonites, Joshua 9:17; and Jerom says s, in his time was shown the village, seven miles from Aelia or Jerusalem, as you go to Neapolis or Shechem.

p De loc. Heb. fol. 92. A. q Ibid. fol. 94. B. r Travels, par. 3. c. 1. p. 215. Ed. Ray. s Vid. Reland. Palestin. Illustrat. tom. 2. p. 618.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the marginal references. There are many indications found in this and the next chapter that the text is in great disorder, and many of the places are still unknown.

Joshua 18:14

And compassed the corner ... - Render “and turned on the west side southward.” The meaning is, that at lower Beth-horon the northern boundary-line of Benjamin curved round and ran southward - Beth-horon being its extreme westerly point.

Joshua 18:21

The “Valley of Keziz,” or “Emek-Keziz,” is perhaps the “Wady el Kaziz,” at no great distance east of Jerusalem.

Joshua 18:22

Zemaraim, i. e. “two wooded hills,” is supposed to be the ruins called “Es-Sumrah,” on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho.

Joshua 18:23

Ophrah (Joshua 15:9 note), to be distinguished here and in 1 Samuel 13:17 from the Ophrah of Judges 6:11, is probably the Ephrain of 2 Chronicles 13:19, and the Ephraim of John 11:54. It is conjecturally identified with “Et-Taiyibeh,” on the road from Jerusalem to Bethel.

Joshua 18:24

Gaba - This name, like Gibeah, Gibeon, etc. Joshua 9:3, indicates a town placed on a hill, and occurs repeatedly in various forms in the topography of Palestine. Gaba is the Gibeah (if 1 Samuel 13:15-16; 1 Samuel 14:5, where the Hebrew has גבע Geba‛, which is undoubtedly the correct reading throughout. The city was one of those assigned to the Levites Joshua 21:17, and lay on the northern border of Judah. It is identified with the modern “Jeba,” lying on the side of a deep ravine opposite to Michmash (“Mukhmas”). The famous “Gibeah of Saul,” or “Giheah of Benjamin” (the Gibeath of Joshua 18:28) lay at no great distance southwest of Geba, on the high road from Jerusalem to Bethel, and is probably to be looked for in the lofty and isolated “Tulcil-el-Ful.”

Joshua 18:25

Ramah - i. e. “lofty;” probably the native town and abode of Samuel 1Sa 1:19; 1 Samuel 25:1. Its exact site is uncertain.

Joshua 18:26

Mizpeh - See Joshua 11:3. Not the Mizpeh of Joshua 15:38, but the place where Samuel judged the people and called them together for the election of a king 1 Samuel 7:5-16; 1 Samuel 10:17. In the Chaldaean times it was the residence of Gedaliah 2 Kings 25:22; Jeremiah 40:14. Its site is identified with “Neby Samwil,” about five miles northwest of Jerusalem.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 18:25. Gibeon — See before, Joshua 10:1-14. This place is famous for the confederacy of the five kings against Israel, and their miraculous defeat. Ramah, a place about six or eight miles north of Jerusalem. Beeroth, i.e., wells; one of the four cities which belonged to the Gibeonites, who made peace with the Israelites by stratagem. See Joshua 9:3-15.