Joshua 18:22
20 And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.
21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and the valley of Keziz,
And Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el,
23 And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
24 And Chephar-haammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:
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Compare
- BSB
- Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
- KJV
- And Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el,
- WEB
- Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
- ASV
- and Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el,
- DARBY
- and Beth-Arabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
- BLB
- and Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
- ÅB
- og Bet-Ha'araba og Semara'im og Betel
- OTB
- Bet Arabah, Zemaraim og bosetningen Betel,
- B1930
- og Bet-Ha'araba og Semara'im og Betel
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Joshua 15:6
And the border went up to Beth-hogla, and passed along by the north of Beth-arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben:
Read in context1 Kings 12:29–32
And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan.
Read in contextJoshua 18:18
And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah:
Read in context2 Chronicles 13:4
And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;
Read in contextGenesis 10:18
And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
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