Anathoth

And from the tribe of Benjamin they were given Gibeon, Geba, Alemeth, and Anathoth, together with their pasturelands. So they had thirteen cities in all among their families.

The ninth, for the ninth month, was Abiezer the Anathothite, a Benjamite. There were 24,000 men in his division.

Then the king said to Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth. Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death at this time, since you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before my father David, and you suffered through all that my father suffered.”

²¹ the men of Bethlehem, 123;

²² the men of Netophah, 56;

²³ the men of Anathoth, 128;

²⁴ the descendants of Azmaveth, 42;

Cry aloud, O Daughter of Gallim! Listen, O Laishah! O wretched Anathoth!

These are the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.

²¹ Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the people of Anathoth who are seeking your life and saying, “You must not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by our hand.”

²² So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.

²³ There will be no remnant, for I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.”

So now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who poses as a prophet among you?

⁷ Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’

⁸ Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

⁹ So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver.

Anathoth, and Almon—four cities, together with their pasturelands.