Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
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Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
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Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages:
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Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
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Passages linked to Joshua 15:57 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Joshua 15:10 and the border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim (also called Chesalon) on the north, and went down to Beth Shemesh, and passed along by Timnah;
- Genesis 38:12 After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.
- Jeremiah 14:1 This is Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Kirjathbaal, (which is Kirjathjearim,),.... Of Kirjathbaal, and its several…
Kirjathbaal, (which is Kirjathjearim,),.... Of Kirjathbaal, and its several names; see Gill on Jos 15:9,
and Rabbah, of which we nowhere else read; for this is a very different city from the Rabbah of the children of Ammon, Sa2 12:26,
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two cities with their villages; why these are reckoned by themselves is not certain.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 57. Timnah] A frontier town of the Philistines;…
Verse 57. Timnah] A frontier town of the Philistines; it was in this place that Samson got his wife, see Jdg 14:1-15:20.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (57) The four first and the four last of…
(57) The four first and the four last of these are all found. Maon, Carmel, and Ziph became famous in David’s wanderings (see the story of Nabal, 1 Samuel 25); and the Ziphites have covered themselves with infamy by their repeated efforts to betray him to Saul, who sought his life (1Sa_23:19; 1Sa_26:1).
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