Joshua 21:16
in Joshua 21Ain, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh—nine cities from these two tribes, together with their pasturelands.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and Ain with its suburbs, and Juttah with its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
KJV
And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and Beth–shemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
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This verse in Joshua 21
Commentary
4 notes on this verseAnd Ain - Ain and Gibeon, and some others here named are not named, 1 Chron. vi, 59. Either they were destroyed in some of those invasions wherewith their land was grievously wasted before that time; or they appear there under other names.
This site's exposition
And they gave out of
on Joshua 21:9-19
Hebron goes to the priests as a city of refuge, and verse 12 keeps Caleb's grant of Joshua 14:13 intact by giving him the fields and the villages while the walled town becomes Levite ground. Anathoth in verse 18 is where Solomon banishes Abiathar in 1 Kings 2:26 and where Jeremiah comes from in Jeremiah 1:1, so two of the sharpest turns in the history of the priesthood happen in a town listed here without comment. Gibeon heads the Benjamin group at verse 17, the town that deceived Joshua in chapter 9 and was bound to serve the house of God, and the tabernacle itself stands there in 1 Chronicles 16:39. The parallel list at 1 Chronicles 6:54-81 differs in several names, which Albert Barnes treats as variant forms and copyists' slips rather than a different grant.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And Ain with her suburbs,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
they gave . . . these cities which are here mentioned by name--It was overruled by the unerring providence of the Divine Lawgiver that the cities of the priests lay within the territories of Judah and Benjamin. This was a provision, the admirable wisdom and propriety of which were fully manifested on the schism that took place in the reign of Rehoboam.
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The words behind it
19 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| עַ֣יִן | ʾayin | Ain | H5871 → | 5 times |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| מִגְרָשֶׁ֗הָ | migrasheha | pasture lands its | H4054 → | 119 times |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| יֻטָּה֙ | yutah | Juttah | H3194 → | |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָ | migrasheha | pasture lands its | H4054 → | 119 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| בֵּ֥ית | beit | Beth | H1053 → | 42 times |
| שֶׁ֖מֶשׁ | shemesh | Shemesh | H1053 → | 42 times |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| מִגְרָשֶׁ֑הָ | migrasheha | pasture lands its | H4054 → | 119 times |
| עָרִ֣ים | ʾarim | cities | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| תֵּ֔שַׁע | tesha' | nine | H8672 → | 58 times |
| מֵאֵ֕ת | meet | from with | H854 → | 929 times |
| שְׁנֵ֥י | shenei | [the] two | H8147 → | 768 times |
| הַשְּׁבָטִ֖ים | hashevatim | the tribes | H7626 → | 190 times |
| הָאֵֽלֶּה׃ פ | haeleh | <the> these | H428 → | 746 times |
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
עַ֣יִןAin
ʾayinH5871 →5 times
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
מִגְרָשֶׁ֗הָpasture lands its
migrashehaH4054 →119 times
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
יֻטָּה֙Juttah
yutahH3194 →
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָpasture lands its
migrashehaH4054 →119 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
בֵּ֥יתBeth
beitH1053 →42 times
שֶׁ֖מֶשׁShemesh
shemeshH1053 →42 times
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
מִגְרָשֶׁ֑הָpasture lands its
migrashehaH4054 →119 times
עָרִ֣יםcities
ʾarimH5892 →1090 times
תֵּ֔שַׁעnine
tesha'H8672 →58 times
מֵאֵ֕תfrom with
meetH854 →929 times
שְׁנֵ֥י[the] two
sheneiH8147 →768 times
הַשְּׁבָטִ֖יםthe tribes
hashevatimH7626 →190 times
הָאֵֽלֶּה׃ פ<the> these
haelehH428 →746 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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 15:10The border curled westward from Baalah to Mount Seir, ran along the northern slope of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), went down to Beth-shemesh, and crossed to Timnah.
it leads to
- Judges 14:1
One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he saw a young Philistine woman.
- Genesis 38:12–13
After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.
- Judges 14:1
Through
Joshua 15:42Libnah, 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.
- Joshua 10:29
Through
1 Chronicles 6:59Ashan, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, together with their pasturelands.
it leads to
- Joshua 15:42
Libnah, Ether, Ashan,
- Jeremiah 43:13
He will demolish the sacred pillars of the temple of the sun in the land of Egypt, and he will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.’”
- Joshua 15:42
Through
Joshua 15:55Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,
it leads to
- 1 Samuel 23:25
and Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told about it, he went down to the rock and stayed in the Wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard of this,…
- Joshua 15:24
Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,
- 1 Samuel 25:2
Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.
- 1 Samuel 23:25
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.