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1 Chronicles 4:32

in 1 Chronicles 4

And their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan—five towns—

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;

KJV

And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:

This verse in 1 Chronicles 4

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
And their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities. There are but four mentioned in Jos 19:7 one might be added since, or new built, namely, Tochen; these, according to Kimchi, were all that remained for them to dwell in, in the times of David; and therefore they were obliged to seek out for new settlements for themselves and flocks, as in 1Ch 4:39, &c.

This site's exposition

And they dwelt at

on 1 Chronicles 4:28-33

Simeon's inheritance is listed as cities held inside Judah's own territory, matching Joshua nineteen's account that the tribe's portion lay within Judah's larger allotment because Judah's share was too much for them. The recurring note, these were their cities unto the reign of David, marks a boundary the Chronicler's source dated its information by, and some of the towns, Ziklag among them, changed hands again in David's own lifetime.

The words behind it

8 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְחַצְרֵיהֶם֙and villages their

    vechatzreihemH2691191 times

  • עֵיטָ֣ם[were] Etam

    ʾeitamH5862

  • וָעַ֔יִןand Ain

    vaayinH5871

  • רִמּ֥וֹןRimmon

    rimonH7417

  • וְתֹ֖כֶןand Tochen

    vetokhenH8507

  • וְעָשָׁ֑ןand Ashan

    veashanH6228

  • עָרִ֖יםcities

    ʾarimH58921090 times

  • חָמֵֽשׁ׃five

    chameshH2568343 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

3 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Joshua 19:7

    Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan—four cities, along with their villages,

    it leads to

About 1 Chronicles

Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.