Joshua 21:31
in Joshua 21Helkath, and Rehob—four cities, together with their pasturelands.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four cities.
KJV
Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs; four cities.
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This verse in Joshua 21
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
the Levite clans of the Gershonites
on Joshua 21:27-40
Gershon takes the north and Merari takes Zebulun with Reuben and Gad, and four refuge cities stand in verses 27, 32, 36 and 38. Ramoth in Gilead is where Ahab dies at 1 Kings 22:29-37, and Mahanaim is where David shelters from Absalom at 2 Samuel 17:24.
This site's exposition
Helkath, and Rehob
Asher's list names a Rehob twice, at Joshua 19:28 and 19:30, and Judges 1:31 puts a Rehob among the towns Asher never took. Helkath opens Asher's list at Joshua 19:25. It is Hukok in 1 Chronicles 6:75.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Helkath with her suburbs,.... See Gill on Jos 19:25; the same with Hukok in 1Ch 6:75, and Rehob with her suburbs, four cities; See Gill on Jos 19:28.
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
10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| חֶלְקָת֙ | chelkat | Helkath | H2520 → | |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָ | migrasheha | pasture lands its | H4054 → | 119 times |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| רְחֹ֖ב | recho | Rehob | H7340 → | 10 times |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| מִגְרָשֶׁ֑הָ | migrasheha | pasture lands its | H4054 → | 119 times |
| עָרִ֖ים | ʾarim | cities | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| אַרְבַּֽע׃ ס | ʾarba' | four | H702 → | 318 times |
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
חֶלְקָת֙Helkath
chelkatH2520 →
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָpasture lands its
migrashehaH4054 →119 times
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
רְחֹ֖בRehob
rechoH7340 →10 times
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
מִגְרָשֶׁ֑הָpasture lands its
migrashehaH4054 →119 times
עָרִ֖יםcities
ʾarimH5892 →1090 times
אַרְבַּֽע׃ סfour
ʾarba'H702 →318 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
1 stopEach 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
Judges 1:31Asher failed to drive out the inhabitants of Acco, Sidon, Ahlab, Achzib, Helbah, Aphik, and Rehob.
it leads to
- Joshua 19:24–30
The fifth lot came out for the clans of the tribe of Asher:
- Joshua 19:24–30
Where this verse is studied
On this page
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About Joshua
This page draws on 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 Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth.