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Joshua 21:16

in Joshua 21

Ain, 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.

This verse in Joshua 21

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

And 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

they designated these cities by name

on Joshua 21:9-19

Hebron goes to the priests as a city of refuge, and verse 12 keeps Caleb's grant of 14:13 by leaving him the fields and villages. The parallel list at 1 Chronicles 6:54-81 differs in several names, which Barnes treats as variant forms and copyists' slips rather than a different grant.

This site's exposition

Ain, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh

Beth-shemesh is where the Philistines sent the ark back on a cart, and in 1 Samuel 6:15 the Levites lift it down onto a rock. It was a priests' town, so men of Levi were at hand. Seventy men died there for looking into the ark.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And Ain with her suburbs,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

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 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.

  • 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 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 15:10

    The 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.

  • 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.

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 6:59

    Ashan, 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.’”

  • Through

    Joshua 15:55

    Maon, 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.

Where this verse is studied

About Joshua

Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon, John Martin, 1816, National Gallery of Art. Public domain.
Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon, John Martin, 1816, National Gallery of Art. Public domain.

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); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth.