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Joshua 19:7

in Joshua 19

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

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages:

KJV

Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:

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This verse in Joshua 19

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
Ain, Remmon,.... Of the two first, which were cities of Judah; see Gill on Jos 15:32, and Ether, and Ashan; of the two last; see Gill on Jos 19:42, four cities and their villages; Ain, Remmon, therefore, could not be one city, at this time, as it seems to have been in the times of Nehemiah, Neh 11:29; or otherwise there would have been but three cities.

This site's exposition

the second lot came forth

on Joshua 19:1-9

Simeon draws second and receives no territory of its own, only towns cut out of Judah, and verse 9 gives the reason plainly, that Judah's part was too much for them. Genesis 49:7 said of Simeon and Levi that God would divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel, and both sentences come due in this book: Levi takes cities among all the tribes in chapter 21, and Simeon takes towns inside another tribe here. Moses blesses every tribe by name in Deuteronomy 33 and Simeon is the one name absent from that chapter. Ziklag stands at verse 5 and is already listed to Judah at 15:31, and Achish hands it to David at 1 Samuel 27:6.

The words behind it

7 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.

  • עַ֥יִן׀Ain

    ʾayinH5871 →5 times

  • רִמּ֖וֹןRimmon

    rimonH7417 →16 times

  • וָעֶ֣תֶרand Ether

    vaeterH6281 →

  • וְעָשָׁ֑ןand Ashan

    veashanH6228 →

  • עָרִ֥יםcities

    ʾarimH5892 →1090 times

  • אַרְבַּ֖עfour

    ʾarba'H702 →318 times

  • וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃and villages their

    vechatzreihenH2691 →191 times

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

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

5 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 15:42

    Libnah, Ether, Ashan,

    it leads to

    • Joshua 10:29

      Then Joshua and all Israel with him moved on from Makkedah to Libnah and fought against Libnah.

    • 2 Kings 8:22

      So to this day Edom has been in rebellion against the hand of Judah. Likewise, Libnah rebelled at the same time.

    • Joshua 12:15

      the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

  • Through

    Joshua 15:32

    Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon—twenty-nine cities in all, along with their villages.

    it leads to

    • Nehemiah 11:29

      in En-rimmon, Zorah, Jarmuth,

    • Numbers 34:11

      then go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Chinnereth.

About Joshua

The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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