Yosua 19:6

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Bet-Lebaot dan Saruhen: tiga belas kota dengan desa-desanya.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Bet-Lebaot dan Saruhen: tiga belas kota dengan desa-desanya.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
dan Bait-Lebaot dan Saruhin, semuanya tiga belas buah negeri serta dengan jajahannya.

Contextual Overview

¹ And the secod lot came out to Simeon, euen for the tribe of the children of Simeon by their kinreds: And their inheritauce was in the middes of the inheritaunce of the children of Iuda. ² And they had in their inheritaunce, Beersabe, Sabe, and Moladah, ³ Hazorsual, Balah, and Azem, ⁴ Eltholad, Bethul, and Hormah, ⁵ Zikelag, Bethmarcaboth, and Hazetsusah, ⁶ Bethlebaoth, & Saruhen, thirteene cities with their villages. ⁷ Ain, Remmon, Ether, & Asan, foure cities with their villages. ⁸ And therto all the villages that were rounde about these cities, euen to Balasah Beer, and Ramath southward. This is the inheritaunce of the tribe of the children of Simeon throughout their kinredes. ⁹ Out of the lot of the children of Iuda, came the inheritaunce of the children of Simeon: For the part of the children of Iuda was to much for them, and therfore the children of Simeon had their inheritaunce in the inheritaunce of them.

Bible Verse Review
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Bethlebaoth: Joshua 15:32

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 4:31 - and Hazarsusim

Cross-References

Judges 19:23
And this man the maister of the house went out, and sayd vnto them: Oh, nay my brethren, do not so wickedly, seyng that this man is come into myne house, do not so vnmeete a thyng.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen,.... Whether the first is the same with Lebaoth, a city of Judah, Joshua 15:32; and with the Bethleptepha of Josephus b, and the Betholene of Pliny c, is not certain: in this place secret to have been an idol temple of the Canaanites, dedicated to lions, as in Egypt there was a city called Leontopolis, from whence was the Leontopolitan nome, the inhabitants of which worshipped lions d; and the Egyptians had temples dedicated to them, as Aelianus e relates. Both these places are thought to be the same with Bethbirei and Shaaraim in 1 Chronicles 4:31; of the latter of which see Joshua 15:36. Those who take Sheba, Joshua 19:2, to be the same with Shema, Joshua 15:26, make but one city here, and take away the last, as the Greek version does, and render the word "and their fields", and so the number still is as follows:

thirteen cities and their villages; the sum total of those enumerated above.

b De Jud. Bell. l. 4. c. 8. sect. 1. c Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 14. d Strabo. Geograph. l. 17. p. 559. e De Animal. l. 12. c. 7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The inheritance of Simeon was taken out of the portion of Judah, which proved on experience to be larger than the numbers of that tribe required. The Simeonite territory is described by its towns, of which fourteen were in the Negeb, and four others Joshua 19:7 partly in the Negeb and partly in “the valley.” On the narrow confines here assigned to Simeon, and its insignificant position altogether among the Twelve tribes, see Deuteronomy 33:6 note.

Joshua 19:6

Thirteen - Fourteen names have been given. The error is probably due to the use of letters for numbers, which has led to many similar mistakes in other places (see Joshua 15:32).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 19:6. Beth-lebaoth — The house or city of lionesses. Probably so called from the numbers of those animals which bred there.