Judith 12:29

Clementine Latin Vulgate

et de domo Galgal, et de regionibus Geba et Azmaveth : quoniam villas ædificaverunt sibi cantores in circuitu Jerusalem.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
et de domo Galgal, et de regionibus Geba et Azmaveth: quoniam villas �dificaverunt sibi cantores in circuitu Jerusalem.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
et de Bethgalgala et de regionibus Gabaa et Azmaveth, quoniam villas aedificaverunt sibi cantores in circuitu Ierusalem.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the house: Or, Beth-Gilgal, a village erected where the Israelites encamped after they had crossed the Jordan. Deuteronomy 11:30, Joshua 5:9, Joshua 10:43

Geba: Nehemiah 11:31, Joshua 21:17, 1 Chronicles 6:60

Azmaveth: Ezra 2:24

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 9:22 - in their

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Also from the house of Gilgal,.... Which likewise was in a champaign country in the plains of Jericho, Deuteronomy 11:30,

and out of the fields of Geba; which was a Levitical city in the tribe of Benjamin, Joshua 21:17

and Azmaveth; the same with Bethazmaveth, Nehemiah 7:28 where it follows Anathoth and Netophah, as it does in Ezra 2:24, and was very probably in the tribe of Benjamin:

for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem; that they might be near it, to do their duty when required; by which it appears that the said places were near Jerusalem.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The house of Gilgal - Or, “Beth-Gilgal” - probably the Gilgal north of Jerusalem (now “Jiljilia).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 29. From the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth — Or, from Beth-Gilgal; a village erected in the place where the Israelites encamped after they had, under the direction of Joshua, passed over Jordan.