Joshua 13:4
What does Joshua 13:4 mean?
A plain-English look at Joshua 13:4 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongeth to the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;
KJV
King James Version · 1611From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongeth to the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949On the south: all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah which is the property of the Zidonians, to Aphek, as far as the limit of the Amorites:
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862`From the south, all the land of the Canaanite, and Mearah, which <FI>is<Fi> to the Sidonians, unto Aphek, unto the border of the Amorite;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And on the south side are the Hevites, all the land of Chanaan, and Maara of the Sidonians as far as Apheca, and the borders of the Amorrhite,
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890in the south, the whole land of the Canaanites, and Mearah which [belongeth] to the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;
Context
v.3from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the border of Ekron northward, which is reckoned to the Canaanites; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,
v.4This passage
v.5and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baal-gad under mount Hermon unto the entrance of Hamath;
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Joshua 12:18
the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lassharon, one;
- Joshua 19:30
Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.
- 1 Samuel 4:1
And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Eben-ezer: and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.
- Joshua 11:3
to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the hill-country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
- Joshua 12:7
And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel smote beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon even unto mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir (and Joshua gave it unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
- Judges 1:34
And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill-country; for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley;
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