Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;
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Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;
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And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:
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And their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;
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- Joshua 19:7 Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages;
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Ch 4:32 And their villages [were], Etam, and Ain,…
1Ch 4:32 And their villages [were], Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:
Ver. 32. Five cities.] Called before villages, because unwalled, haply. The Hague in Holland hath two thousand households in it: the inhabitants will not wall it, they say, as desiring to have it counted rather the principal village of Europe, than a lesser city.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Meshobab, and Jamlech,.... These, with those that follow…
And Meshobab, and Jamlech,.... These, with those that follow to the end of Ch1 4:37 were famous men in the tribe of Simeon, of rank and dignity, and eminent for courage and valour, as the latter part of the chapter testifies, though they are nowhere else taken notice of. Jamlech, as Fabritius (k) observes, is not very different from Jamblichus, the name of a famous Platonic philosopher.
(k) Bibliothec. Gr. l. 4. c. 28. p. 294.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 32. And their villages were] These villages (ḥǎçêrîm) are…
32. And their villages were] These villages (ḥǎçêrîm) are called at the end of the verse cities, but sometimes ḥǎçêrîm are described as un-walled (Lev_25:31) and sometimes as dependencies of cities (1Ch_4:33 of this ch.). In these two cases ḥǎçêrîm would be distinguished from cities.
Etam] In the parallel passage, Jos_19:7, Etam is omitted and the villages (“cities”) are reckoned as four not five.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (32) And their villages.—This belongs to 1Ch_4:31. The verb…
(32) And their villages.—This belongs to 1Ch_4:31. The verb should be cancelled.
Etam, and Ain, Rimmon . . .—Why are these five cities separated from the former thirteen? The old Jewish expositors Rashi and Kimchi assert, that whereas the thirteen were lost to the Simeonites from the time of David, these five remained in their possession. The separation is made in Joshua 19 as well as here. (Many MSS. read “and Rimmon.”)
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Five cities.—Jos_19:7 : “Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages.” Etam may be a mistake for Ether. But there were two Etams, one in the hills of Judah, south of Bethlehem (see 1Ch_4:3, Note; 2Ch_11:6), and one in the south of Judah (Jdg_15:8)—perhaps the place intended here. Ether occurs in Jos_15:42 along with Ashan. Both were in the lowlands of Judah. Ain and Rimmon are spoken of as one place (Neh_11:29): they must have been close to each other (comp. Buda-Pesth). Tochen only here.
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Etam ... Ain ... Rimmon ... Token ... Ashan
These are the names of villages. (See: How to Translate Names)
outlying villages
the villages that were near but outside the main town
Baalath
This is the name of a town. (See: How to Translate Names)
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