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Young's Literal Translation

Joshua 21:31

Helkath and its suburbs, and Rehob and 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.
Update Bible Version
Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with 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 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

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 riseth early in the morning, and taketh bread, and a bottle of water, and giveth unto Hagar (placing [it] on her shoulder), also the lad, and sendeth her out; and she goeth on, and goeth astray in the wilderness of Beer-Sheba;
Genesis 26:23
And he goeth up from thence [to] Beer-Sheba,
Genesis 26:33
and he calleth it Shebah, [oath,] therefore the name of the city [is] Beer-Sheba, [well of the oath,] unto this day.
Joshua 15:28
and Hazar-Shual, and Beer-Sheba, and Bizjothjah,
Judges 20:1
And all the sons of Israel go out, and the company is assembled as one man, from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba, and the land of Gilead, unto Jehovah, at Mizpeh.
2 Samuel 17:11
`So that I have counselled: Let all Israel be diligently gathered unto thee, from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba, as the sand that [is] by the sea for multitude, and thou thyself art going in the midst;
1 Kings 4:25
And Judah dwelleth -- and Israel -- in confidence, each under his vine, and under his fig-tree, from Dan even unto 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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