Joshua 9:17
in Joshua 9So the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities—Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.
KJV
And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath–jearim.
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This verse in Joshua 9
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Chephirah (Kefir) is situated eight or nine miles west of Gibeon, and was an inhabited city in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah Ezr 2:25; Neh 7:29. Beeroth (Birch), about eight miles north of Jerusalem. Kirjath-jearim, i. e. “city of woods,” is identified by Robinson with the modern Kuriet el Enab, nine miles from Jerusalem on the road to Jaffa (and by Conder with Soba). The town was numbered among those belonging to Judah, and was in the northern boundary of that tribe. Beyond this city the six hundred Danites encamped on their famous expedition to Laish Jdg 18:
This site's exposition
on the third day arrived at their cities
on Joshua 9:17-19
Four towns come in with Gibeon, each with a later history: Kiriath-jearim keeps the ark at 1 Samuel 7:1-2. The congregation grumbles against the leaders with the verb the wilderness chapters use against Moses. The leaders rest their whole answer on having sworn “by the LORD, the God of Israel”.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And the children of Israel journeyed,....
How the matter was adjusted to the satisfaction of all sides, by giving these Gibeonites their lives because they had covenanted with them, yet depriving them of their liberties because the covenant was not fairly obtained,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
The children of Israel - came unto their cities - Probably when the fraud was discovered, Joshua sent out a detachment to examine their country, and to see what use could be made of it in the prosecution of their war with the Canaanites. Some of the cities mentioned here were afterwards in great repute among the Israelites: and God chose to make one of them, Kirjath-jearim, the residence of the ark of the covenant for twenty years, in the reigns of Saul and David. There is no evidence that the preservation of the Gibeonites was displeasing to Jehovah.
The words behind it
14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּסְע֣וּ | vaiyisu | and they set out | H5265 → | 146 times |
| בְנֵֽי־ | venei- | [the] people of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| וַיָּבֹ֛אוּ | vaiyavou | and they came | H935 → | 2568 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| עָרֵיהֶ֖ם | ʾareihem | cities their | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| בַּיּ֣וֹם | baiyom | on the day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֑י | hashelishi | <the> third | H7992 → | |
| וְעָרֵיהֶם֙ | veareihem | and cities their | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| גִּבְע֣וֹן | givon | [were] Gibeon | H1391 → | 38 times |
| וְהַכְּפִירָ֔ה | vehakefirah | and <the> Kephirah | H3716 → | |
| וּבְאֵר֖וֹת | uveerot | and Beeroth | H881 → | |
| וְקִרְיַ֥ת | vekiryat | and Kiriath | H7157 → | 39 times |
| יְעָרִֽים׃ | yearim | Jearim | H7157 → | 39 times |
וַיִּסְע֣וּand they set out
vaiyisuH5265 →146 times
בְנֵֽי־[the] people of
venei-H1121 →4930 times
יִשְׂרָאֵ֗לIsrael
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
וַיָּבֹ֛אוּand they came
vaiyavouH935 →2568 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
עָרֵיהֶ֖םcities their
ʾareihemH5892 →1090 times
בַּיּ֣וֹםon the day
baiyomH3117 →2304 times
הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֑י<the> third
hashelishiH7992 →
וְעָרֵיהֶם֙and cities their
veareihemH5892 →1090 times
גִּבְע֣וֹן[were] Gibeon
givonH1391 →38 times
וְהַכְּפִירָ֔הand <the> Kephirah
vehakefirahH3716 →
וּבְאֵר֖וֹתand Beeroth
uveerotH881 →
וְקִרְיַ֥תand Kiriath
vekiryatH7157 →39 times
יְעָרִֽים׃Jearim
yearimH7157 →39 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 15:9From the hilltop the border curved to the spring of the Waters of Nephtoah, proceeded to the cities of Mount Ephron, and then bent around toward Baalah (that is, Kiriath-jearim).
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 13:6
David and all Israel went up to Baalah of Judah (that is, Kiriath-jearim) to bring up from there the ark of God the LORD, who is enthroned between the cherubim—the ark that is called…
- Joshua 18:15
On the south side the border began at the outskirts of Kiriath-jearim and extended westward to the spring at the Waters of Nephtoah.
- Judges 18:12
They went up and camped at Kiriath-jearim in Judah. That is why the place west of Kiriath-jearim is called Mahaneh-dan to this day.
- 1 Chronicles 13:6
Through
Joshua 18:14On the west side the border curved southward from the hill facing Beth-horon on the south and came out at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a city of the sons of Judah. This was the…
it leads to
- 2 Samuel 6:2
And he and all his troops set out for Baale of Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name—the name of the LORD of Hosts, who…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Joshua 15:9
From the hilltop the border curved to the spring of the Waters of Nephtoah, proceeded to the cities of Mount Ephron, and then bent around toward Baalah (that is, Kiriath-jearim).
- Joshua 15:60
Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah—two cities, along with their villages.
- 1 Samuel 7:1–2
Then the men of Kiriath-jearim came for the ark of the LORD and took it into Abinadab’s house on the hill. And they consecrated his son Eleazar to guard the ark of the LORD.
- 1 Chronicles 13:5–6
So David assembled all Israel, from the River Shihor in Egypt to Lebo-hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.
- 2 Samuel 6:2
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; 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.