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Forty-Eight Cities for the Levites

Joshua 21:39

In 10 translations

BSB
Heshbon, and Jazer—four cities in all, together with their pasturelands.
KJV
Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all.
WEB
Heshbon with its pasture lands, Jazer with its pasture lands: four cities in all.
ASV
Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs; four cities in all.
LSV
Heshbon and its outskirts, Jazer and its outskirts—four cities [in] all.
YLT
Heshbon and its suburbs, Jazer and its suburbs — [in] all four cities.
DBY
Heshbon and its suburbs, Jaazer and its suburbs: four cities in all.
GNV
Heshbon with her suburbs, and Iazer with her suburbes: foure cities in all.
JPS
Heshbon with the open land about it, Jazer with the open land about it; four cities in all.
LXXE
and Esbon and its suburbs; and Jazer and its suburbs: the cities were four in all.

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Original-language editions

WLC
אֶת־חֶשְׁבּוֹן֙ וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָ אֶת־יַעְזֵ֖ר וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֑הָ כָּל־עָרִ֖ים אַרְבַּֽע׃
LXX-Br
καὶ τὴν Ἐσβὼν, καὶ τὰ περισπόρια αὐτῆς· καὶ τὴν Ἰαζὴρ, καὶ τὰ περισπόρια αὐτῆς· πᾶσαι αἱ πόλεις τέσσαρες.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Numbers 32:3“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
  • Jeremiah 48:32I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah, more than I weep for Jazer. Your tendrils have extended to the sea; they reach even to Jazer. The destroyer has descended on your summer fruit and grape harvest.
  • Numbers 21:26–30Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land as far as the Arnon. That is why the poets say: “Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt; let the…
  • Numbers 32:37The Reubenites built up Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,
  • 1 Chronicles 6:81Heshbon, and Jazer, together with their pasturelands.
  • Isaiah 16:8–9For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had…
  • Numbers 32:35Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,
  • Joshua 13:21all the cities of the plateau and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon until Moses killed him and the chiefs of Midian (Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba), the princes of Sihon who lived…
  • Joshua 13:17to Heshbon and all its cities on the plateau, including Dibon, Bamoth-baal, Beth-baal-meon,
  • Numbers 32:1Now the Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, and they saw that the region was suitable for livestock.

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  • 21:37b in some Bibles

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