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Nehemiah 11:27

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in Hazar-shual; in Beersheba and its villages;

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and in Hazar-shual, and in Beer-sheba and the towns thereof,

KJV

And at Hazar–shual, and at Beer–sheba, and in the villages thereof,

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This verse in Nehemiah 11

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

the villages, with their fields

on Nehemiah 11:25-36

The chapter widens from Jerusalem's numbered households to the villages beyond it: Judah's towns run south from Kirjath-arba to Beersheba and the valley of Hinnom, ground that included Hebron recovered under its old name after the exile, and Benjamin's towns run north from Geba through Michmash and Anathoth to Lod and the valley of craftsmen. The land, not the city alone, is repopulated, and the register says so town by town. The chapter's closing line folds the Levites back into both tribes' territory, divisions in Judah and in Benjamin, ending a roll that opened with the holy city and finishes with the whole province settled.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

9 And Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer: and Judah the son of Senuah was second over the city. 10 Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin. 11 Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, was the ruler of the house of God.

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The words behind it

5 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.

  • וּבַחֲצַ֥רand in Hazar

    uvachatzarH2705 →

  • שׁוּעָ֛לShual

    shualH2705 →

  • וּבִבְאֵ֥רand in Beer

    uviverH884 →68 times

  • שֶׁ֖בַעSheba

    sheva'H884 →68 times

  • וּבְנֹתֶֽיהָ׃and daughters its

    uvenoteihaH1323 →588 times

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

Related verses

5 in all, six open

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

    Genesis 21:31

    So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 26:33

      So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Genesis 21:14

      Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Genesis 26:33

    So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 21:31

      So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.

  • Through

    Judges 20:1

    Then all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came out, and the congregation assembled as one man before the LORD at Mizpah.

    it leads to

    • Judges 11:11

      So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him their leader and commander. And Jephthah repeated all his terms in the presence of the LORD at Mizpah.

    • 1 Samuel 10:17

      After this, Samuel summoned the people to the LORD at Mizpah

    • 1 Samuel 3:20

      So all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the LORD.

    • Joshua 22:12

      And when they heard this, the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh to go to war against them.

    • 2 Samuel 3:10

      to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and to establish the throne of David over Israel and Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.”

About Nehemiah

Nehemiah Views the Ruins of Jerusalem's Walls, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Nehemiah Views the Ruins of Jerusalem's Walls, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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