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Young's Literal Translation

Joshua 21:16

and Ain and its suburbs, and Juttah and its suburbs, Beth-Shemesh and its suburbs; nine cities out of these two tribes.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ain;   Beth-Shemesh;   Juttah;   Levites;   Priest;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Aaronites;   Beth-Shemesh;   John;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Levite;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Beth-Shemesh;   Judah, Tribe of;   Juttah;   Mary;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ain;   Ashan;   Bethshemesh;   Judah;   Juttah;   Levi;   Mary, the Virgin;   Priest;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ain;   Ashan;   Joshua, the Book of;   Juttah;   Kohathites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Joshua;   Jutah;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Suburb;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ain;   Juttah ;   Kohath, Kohathites ;   Levites ;   Refuge, Cities of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ain;   Beth-shemesh;   Smith Bible Dictionary - A'in;   Priest;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Bethshemesh;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ain (2);   Ashan;   Beth-Shemesh;   Juttah;   Simeon (1);   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Beth-shemesh;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ain;   Ashan;   Beth-Shemesh;   Levi ;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Ain with its pasturelands, Juttah with its pasturelands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands—nine cities from these two tribes.
Hebrew Names Version
and `Ayin with its suburbs, and Yuttah with its suburbs, [and] Beit-Shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
King James Version
And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
Lexham English Bible
Ain and its pasturelands, Juttah and its pasturelands, and Beth Shemesh and its pasturelands; nine cities from these two tribes.
English Standard Version
Ain with its pasturelands, Juttah with its pasturelands, Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands—nine cities out of these two tribes;
New Century Version
Ain, Juttah, and Beth Shemesh, and all the pastures around them. Nine towns were given from these two tribes.
New English Translation
Ain, Juttah, and Beth Shemesh, along with the grazing areas of each—a total of nine cities taken from these two tribes.
Amplified Bible
and Ain with its pasture lands and Juttah with its pasture lands and Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands; nine cities from these two tribes (Judah and Simeon).
New American Standard Bible
Ain with its pasture lands, Juttah with its pasture lands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands; nine cities from these two tribes.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Ain with her suburbes, and Iuttah with her suburbes, Beth-shemesh wt her suburbes: nine cities out of those two tribes.
Legacy Standard Bible
and Ain with its pasture lands, and Juttah with its pasture lands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands; nine cities from these two tribes.
Complete Jewish Bible
‘Ayin with its surrounding open land, Yutah with its surrounding open land and Beit-Shemesh with its surrounding open land — nine cities out of these two tribes.
Darby Translation
and Ain and its suburbs, and Juttah and its suburbs, [and] Beth-shemesh and its suburbs: nine cities out of those two tribes;
Easy-to-Read Version
Ain, Juttah, and Beth Shemesh. They also gave them some of the land near these towns for their animals. These two tribes gave them nine towns.
George Lamsa Translation
Ain with its suburbs, Aata with its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of the tribes of Judah and Simeon.
Good News Translation
Ain, Juttah, and Beth Shemesh, with their pasture lands: nine cities from the tribes of Judah and Simeon.
Literal Translation
and Ain and its open lands, and Juttah and its open lands, and Beth-shemesh and its open lands; nine cities out of those two tribes.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ain and the suburbes therof, Iuta and the suburbes therof, Beth Semes and the suburbes therof, euen nyne cities of these two trybes.
American Standard Version
and Ain with its suburbs, and Juttah with its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
Bible in Basic English
And Ain, and Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, with their grass-lands; nine towns from those two tribes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ain with her suburbes, Iuttah with her suburbes, Bethsames with her suburbes: nine cities out of those two tribes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and Ain with the open land about it, and Juttah with the open land about it, and Beth-shemesh with the open land about it; nine cities out of those two tribes.
King James Version (1611)
And Ain with her suburbs, and Iuttah with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs, nine cities out of those two tribes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and Asa and its suburbs; and Tany and its suburbs; and Baethsamys and its suburbs: nine cities from these two tribes.
English Revised Version
and Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
Berean Standard Bible
Ain, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh-nine cities from these two tribes, along with their pasturelands.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Bethsames, with her subarbis; nyne citees, of twei lynagis, as it is seid.
Update Bible Version
and Ashan with its suburbs, and Juttah with its suburbs, [and] Beth-shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Ain with its suburbs, and Juttah with its suburbs, [and] Beth-shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
World English Bible
and Ain with its suburbs, and Juttah with its suburbs, [and] Beth-shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
New King James Version
Ain with its common-land, Juttah with its common-land, and Beth Shemesh with its common-land: nine cities from those two tribes;
New Living Translation
Ain, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh—nine towns from these two tribes.
New Life Bible
Ain with its fields, Juttah with its fields, and Bethshemesh with its fields. There were nine cities from these two family groups.
New Revised Standard
Ain with its pasture lands, Juttah with its pasture lands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands—nine towns out of these two tribes.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and Ain, with her pasture land, and Juttah, with her pasture land, Beth-shemesh, with her pasture land, - nine cities, out of these two tribes.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Ain, and Jeta, and Bethsames, with their suburbs: nine cities out of the two tribes, as hath been said.
Revised Standard Version
A'in with its pasture lands, Juttah with its pasture lands, Beth-she'mesh with its pasture lands--nine cities out of these two tribes;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and Ain with its pasture lands and Juttah with its pasture lands and Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands; nine cities from these two tribes.

Contextual Overview

9 And they give out of the tribe of the sons of Judah, and out of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, these cities which are called by name; 10 and they are for the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathite, of the sons of Levi, for theirs hath been the first lot; 11 and they give to them the city of Arba father of Anak (it [is] Hebron), in the hill-country of Judah, and its suburbs round about it; 12 and the field of the city and its villages they have given to Caleb son of Jephunneh for his possession. 13 And to the sons of Aaron the priest they have given the city of refuge [for] the man-slayer, Hebron and its suburbs, and Libnah and its suburbs, 14 and Jattir and its suburbs, and Eshtemoa and its suburbs, 15 and Holon and its suburbs, and Debir and its suburbs, 16 and Ain and its suburbs, and Juttah and its suburbs, Beth-Shemesh and its suburbs; nine cities out of these two tribes. 17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon and its suburbs, Geba and its suburbs, 18 Anathoth and its suburbs, and Almon and its suburbs -- four cities;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ain: Joshua 15:42, 1 Chronicles 6:59, Ashan

Juttah: Eusebius says Juttah was a great town 18 miles south from Eleutheropolis. Joshua 15:55

Bethshemesh: Joshua 15:10, 1 Samuel 6:9, 1 Samuel 6:12, 1 Chronicles 6:59

Reciprocal: Joshua 19:22 - Bethshemesh Joshua 19:41 - Irshemesh 2 Kings 14:11 - Bethshemesh 1 Chronicles 6:60 - thirteen cities 2 Chronicles 25:21 - Bethshemesh

Cross-References

Genesis 27:38
And Esau saith unto his father, `One blessing hast thou my father? bless me, me also, O my father;' and Esau lifteth up his voice, and weepeth.
Genesis 29:11
And Jacob kisseth Rachel, and lifteth up his voice, and weepeth,
Genesis 44:34
for how do I go up unto my father, and the youth not with me? lest I look on the evil which doth find my father.'
Judges 2:4
And it cometh to pass, when the messenger of Jehovah speaketh these words unto all the sons of Israel, that the people lift up their voice and weep,
Ruth 1:9
Jehovah doth grant to you, and find ye rest each in the house of her husband;' and she kisseth them, and they lift up their voice and weep.
1 Samuel 24:16
And it cometh to pass, when David completeth to speak these words unto Saul, that Saul saith, `Is this thy voice, my son David?' and Saul lifteth up his voice, and weepeth.
1 Samuel 30:4
And David lifteth up -- and the people who [are] with him -- their voice and weep, till that they have no power to weep.
1 Kings 3:26
And the woman whose son [is] the living one saith unto the king (for her bowels yearned over her son), yea, she saith, `O, my lord, give to her the living child, and put it not at all to death;' and this [one] saith, `Let it be neither mine or thine -- cut [it].'
Esther 8:6
for how do I endure when I have looked on the evil that doth find my people? and how do I endure when I have looked on the destruction of my kindred?'
Isaiah 49:15
Forget doth a woman her suckling, The loved one -- the son of her womb? Yea, these forget -- but I -- I forget not thee.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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

and Juttah with her suburbs; :-;

[and] Bethshemesh with her suburbs; which is not mentioned among the cities of Judah, Joshua 15:21; only as in the borders of it,

Joshua 21:10; and perhaps is the same Bethshemesh to which the ark was directed by the Philistines from Ashdod, 1 Samuel 6:9; in it formerly was a temple dedicated to the sun, from whence it had its name:

nine cities out of those two tribes; and they seem all but one, which is Ain, to be of the tribe of Judah, and that originally belonged to it; and as that tribe had the largest number of cities in its lot, the more were given out of it to the Levites, according to a rule prescribed, Numbers 35:8.

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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