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1 Chronicles 2:23

What does 1 Chronicles 2:23 mean?

A plain-English look at 1 Chronicles 2:23 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages thereof, even threescore cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages thereof, even threescore cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

And Geshur and Aram took the tent-towns of Jair from them, with Kenath and the small places round it, even sixty towns. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

and he taketh Geshur and Aram, the small villages of Jair, from them, with Kenath and its small towns, sixty cities--all these <FI>belonged to<Fi> the sons of Machir father of Gilead.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And he took Gessur, and Aram the towns of Jair, and Canath, and the villages thereof, threescore cities. All these, the sons of Machir father of Galaad.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

and Geshur and Aram took the villages of Jair from them, with Kenath and its dependent towns, sixty cities. All these were sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

Context

v.22And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.

v.23This passage

v.24And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephrathah, then Abijah Hezron’s wife bare him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Numbers 32:41

    And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the towns thereof, and called them Havvoth-jair.

  • 2 Samuel 13:38

    So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

  • Joshua 13:13

    Nevertheless the children of Israel drove not out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel unto this day.

  • Joshua 13:30

    And their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities:

  • Deuteronomy 3:14

    Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth-jair, unto this day.)

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