Nehemiah 11:31 BSB — MannaFest

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8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּבְנֵ֥י	u.ve.Nei	and [the] descendants of	H1121 →
בִנְיָמִ֖ן	vin.ya.Min	Benjamin	H1144 →
מִגָּ֑בַע	mi.Ga.va'	[were] from Geba	H1387 →
מִכְמָ֣שׂ	mikh.Mas	Micmash	H4363 →
וְעַיָּ֔ה	ve.'ai.Yah	and Aija	H5857 →
וּבֵֽית־	u.veit-	and Beth-	H1008 →
אֵ֖ל	'el	-el	H1008 →
וּבְנֹתֶֽיהָ׃	u.ve.no.Tei.ha	and daughters its	H1323 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 28:19
and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.
leads to
- Genesis 35:1
  Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
- Hosea 12:4–5
  Yes, he struggled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought His favor; he found Him at Bethel and spoke with Him there—
- Genesis 48:3
  Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there He blessed me
- Hosea 4:15
  Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear on oath, ‘As surely as the LORD lives!’
- Judges 1:22–26
  The house of Joseph also attacked Bethel, and the LORD was with them.
Through
Isaiah 10:28
Assyria has entered Aiath and passed through Migron, storing their supplies at Michmash.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 14:2
  Meanwhile, Saul was staying under the pomegranate tree in Migron on the outskirts of Gibeah. And the troops who were with him numbered about six hundred men,
- 1 Samuel 13:2
  He chose for himself three thousand men of Israel: Two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And…
- 1 Samuel 13:5
  Now the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of…

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Isaiah 10:28Assyria has entered Aiath and passed through Migron, storing their supplies at Michmash.Genesis 28:19and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.Nehemiah 7:30–32the men of Ramah and Geba, 621;Joshua 8:9So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the place of ambush and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But Joshua spent that night among the people.Joshua 18:24Chephar-ammoni, Ophni, and Geba—twelve cities, along with their villages.Genesis 12:8From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.Joshua 18:13From there the border crossed over to the southern slope of Luz (that is, Bethel) and went down to Ataroth-addar on the hill south of Lower Beth-horon.1 Samuel 13:11“What have you done?” Samuel asked. And Saul replied, “When I saw that the troops were deserting me, and that you did not come at the appointed time and the Philistines were gathering at Michmash,Joshua 7:2Meanwhile, Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven to the east of Bethel, and told them, “Go up and spy out the land.” So the men went up and spied out Ai.Nehemiah 12:29from Beth-gilgal, and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for they had built villages for themselves around Jerusalem.1 Samuel 13:23And a garrison of the Philistines had gone out to the pass at Michmash.

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