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Joshua 21:15

and Holon with its suburbs, and Debir with its suburbs,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Debir;   Hilen;   Levites;   Priest;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Aaronites;   Debir;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Levite;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Judah, Tribe of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Debir (1);   Hilen;   Holon;   Judah;   Levi;   Mary, the Virgin;   Priest;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Debir;   Hilen;   Holon;   Joshua, the Book of;   Kohathites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Beth-Shemesh;   Debir;   Holon;   Joshua;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Suburb;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Debir ;   Hilen ;   Kohath, Kohathites ;   Levites ;   Refuge, Cities of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Dehir;   Smith Bible Dictionary - De'bir;   Ho'lon;   Priest;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Debir (2);   Hilen;   Holon;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Debir;   Holon;   Kirjath-Sepher;   Levi ;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Holon with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands,
Hebrew Names Version
and Holon with its suburbs, and Devir with its suburbs,
King James Version
And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs,
Lexham English Bible
Holon and its pasturelands, Debir and its pasturelands,
English Standard Version
Holon with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands,
New Century Version
Holon, Debir,
New English Translation
Holon, Debir,
Amplified Bible
and Holon with its pasture lands and Debir with its pasture lands,
New American Standard Bible
Holon with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Holon with her suburbes, and Debir with her suburbes,
Legacy Standard Bible
Holon with its pasture lands, and Debir with its pasture lands,
Complete Jewish Bible
Holon with its surrounding open land; D'vir with its surrounding open land;
Darby Translation
and Holon and its suburbs, and Debir and its suburbs,
Easy-to-Read Version
Holon, Debir,
George Lamsa Translation
Halol with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs,
Good News Translation
Holon, Debir,
Literal Translation
and Holon and its open lands, and Debir and its open lands,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Holon and the suburbes therof, Debir and the suburbes therof,
American Standard Version
and Holon with its suburbs, and Debir with its suburbs,
Bible in Basic English
And Holon with its grass-lands, and Debir with its grass-lands;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Holon with her suburbes, Dabir with her suburbes:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and Holon with the open land about it, and Debir with the open land about it;
King James Version (1611)
And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and Gella and its suburbs; and Dabir and its suburbs;
English Revised Version
and Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs;
Berean Standard Bible
Holon, Debir,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Elon, and Dabir, and Ayn, and Lethan,
Young's Literal Translation
and Holon and its suburbs, and Debir and its suburbs,
Update Bible Version
and Holon with its suburbs, and Debir with its suburbs,
Webster's Bible Translation
And Holon with its suburbs, and Debir with its suburbs,
New King James Version
Holon with its common-land, Debir with its common-land,
New Living Translation
Holon, Debir,
New Life Bible
Holon with its fields, Debir with its fields,
New Revised Standard
Holon with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and Holon, with her pasture land, and Debir, with her pasture land;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Holon, and Dabir,
Revised Standard Version
Holon with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and Holon with its pasture lands and Debir with its pasture lands,

Contextual Overview

9 They gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are [here] mentioned by name: 10 and they were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot. 11 They gave them Kiriath-arba, [which Arba was] the father of Anak (the same is Hebron), in the hill-country of Judah, with the suburbs of it round about it. 12 But the fields of the city, and the villages of it, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession. 13 To the children 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 Ain with its suburbs, and Juttah with its suburbs, [and] Beth-shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes. 17 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

Holon: Joshua 15:51, 1 Chronicles 6:58, Hilen

Debir: Joshua 12:13, Joshua 15:49

Reciprocal: Joshua 10:38 - Debir

Cross-References

Genesis 21:1
Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.
Genesis 21:3
Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
Genesis 21:14
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 child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Genesis 21:22
It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.
Genesis 21:25
Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
2 Kings 3:9
So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host, nor for the animals that followed them.
Psalms 63:1
<> God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you, My flesh longs for you, In a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
Isaiah 44:12
The smith [makes] an ax, and works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm: yes, he is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.
Jeremiah 14:3
Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are put to shame and confounded, and cover their heads.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Holon with her suburbs,.... :-;

and Debir with her suburbs; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The thirteen priestly cities (see the marginal references) were all in the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin. Thus, as Calvin remarks, God so overruled it that the priestly families were placed upon the spot which He had determined before hand to choose as the site of His temple.


 
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