Joshua 21:39
What does Joshua 21:39 mean?
A plain-English look at Joshua 21:39 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs; four cities in all.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs; four cities in all.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Heshbon and Jazer with their grass-lands, four towns.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Heshbon and its suburbs, Jazer and its suburbs--<FI> in<Fi> all four cities.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752So all the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight,
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Heshbon and its suburbs, Jaazer and its suburbs: four cities in all.
Context
v.38And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Mahanaim with its suburbs,
v.39This passage
v.40All these were the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 21:26
For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto the Arnon.
- Numbers 32:35
and Atroth-shophan, and Jazer, and Jogbehah,
- Numbers 32:3
Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
- Jeremiah 48:32
With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for thee, O vine of Sibmah: thy branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Jazer: upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage the destroyer is fallen.
- Isaiah 16:8
For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down the choice branches thereof, which reached even unto Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.
- Numbers 32:1
Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;
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