They gave them Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (also called Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its pasture lands around it.
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They gave them Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (also called Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its pasture lands around it.
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And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.
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And they gave them Kiriath-arba, which Arba was the father of Anak — the same is Hebron — in the hill-country of Judah, with the open land round about it.
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Passages linked to Joshua 21:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Chronicles 6:55 to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and its pasture lands around it;
- Luke 1:39 Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah,
- Genesis 23:2 Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
- Genesis 35:27 Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.
- Joshua 14:15 Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man among the Anakim. Then the land had rest from war.
- Joshua 15:13-14 He gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua, even Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (also called Hebron). Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
- Joshua 15:54 Humtah, Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their villages.
- Joshua 20:7-9 They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron) in the hill country of Judah. Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh. These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the alien who lives among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands trial before the congregation.
- Judges 1:10 Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron. (The name of Hebron before that was Kiriath Arba.) They struck Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.
- 2 Samuel 2:1-3 After this, David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?” Yahweh said to him, “Go up.” David said, “Where shall I go up?” He said, “To Hebron.” So David went up there with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. David brought up his men who were with him, every man with his household. They lived in the cities of Hebron.
- 2 Samuel 5:1-5 Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and spoke, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led Israel out and in. Yahweh said to you, ‘You will be shepherd of my people Israel, and you will be prince over Israel.’ ” So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel. David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.
- 2 Samuel 15:7 At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And they gave them the city of Arba, the…
And they gave them the city of Arba, the father of Anak,.... Which from him was called Kirjatharba, Jos 14:15; and Anak, according to Kimchi, is not the name of a man, but a general name, comprehending the Anakims, a race of giants, among whom Arba was the chief and principal man, a prince and ruler over them, as Ben Melech:
which city is Hebron in the hill country of Judah; as in Jos 14:15; see Luk 1:39,
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with the suburbs thereof round about it; as far as two thousand cubits, which were to put their cattle in, and provision for them.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 11. The city of Arba] See Clarke on…
Verse 11. The city of Arba] See Clarke on Jos 14:15.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 11. Hebron — See on Jos_10:3, and Jos_14:12. We…
11. Hebron — See on Jos_10:3, and Jos_14:12. We here meet the difficulty of a double proprietorship. We have seen in Jos_14:13, that Joshua gave Hebron to Caleb as a reward for his fidelity, but now we find that the same city is bestowed upon the priests. Our solution of this difficulty is, that the Levites did not have exclusive ownership of these cities. From Num_3:39, we learn that the census of the Levites was about twenty-two thousand males of a month old and upward.
This would give less than five hundred males, adult and children, to each of the forty-eight cities. As Hebron and Shechem and several others were large and important, the inference is, that the Levites had ample inheritance in these cities sufficient to give a sacred character to them. We have an intimation of this in Jos_21:12. For the Hebrews who tilled the fields of Caleb’s sons must have resided in Hebron for protection. Again, in the law requiring the alienated house and pasture land of the Levite to revert to him in the year of jubilee, there is implied that others than Levites lived with them. Lev_25:32-34.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 11. the city of Arbah] See above, Jos_15:13.
11. the city of Arbah] See above, Jos_15:13.
which city is Hebron] See above, Jos_15:13.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain In the hill country of Judah. The word in…
In the hill country of Judah. The word in the original is rh, mountain, the title which is consistently applied to the highlands of Palestine in the Bible, while our version translates indiscriminately by "mountain" and "hill."
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Arba had been the father of Anak
Arba had been the father of Anak
This is background information about the name of the man who founded the city of Kiriath Arba. (See: Background Information)
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Anak
This is the name of a man. (See: How to Translate Names)
hill country
An area of land with natural elevations, smaller than mountains.
pasturelands
An area covered with grass or plants suitable for the grazing of livestock or cattle.
fields of the city
Areas of open land, usually, planted with crops, belonging to and surrounding the city.
villages
Small communities, usually smaller than a town.
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Hebron
Caleb
possess
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