As for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and its towns, in Dibon and its towns, in Jekabzeel and its villages,
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As for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and its towns, in Dibon and its towns, in Jekabzeel and its villages,
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And for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah dwelt at Kirjath-arba, and in the villages thereof, and at Dibon, and in the villages thereof, and at Jekabzeel, and in the villages thereof,
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And for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah dwelt in Kiriath-arba and the towns thereof, and in Dibon and the towns thereof, and in Jekabzeel and the villages thereof;
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Passages linked to Nehemiah 11:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 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 15:21-22 The farthest cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur, Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah,
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Neh 11:25 And for the villages, with their fields,…
Neh 11:25 And for the villages, with their fields, [some] of the children of Judah dwelt at Kirjatharba, and [in] the villages thereof, and at Dibon, and [in] the villages thereof, and at Jekabzeel, and [in] the villages thereof,
Ver. 25. In the villages thereof] Heb. In the daughters: for villages seem to be so to the greater cities.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Kirjath-arba: this and most of the other places here…
Kirjath-arba: this and most of the other places here named had been destroyed by the Chaldeans; but the Jews now repaired the best of the ruinated houses, and by degrees rebuilt others.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Kirjath-arba - i. e., Hebron. In the absence of…
Kirjath-arba - i. e., Hebron. In the absence of the Hebrews during the captivity, the place had recovered its old name Jos 15:13.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain The houses. Hebrew, "and for the dwellings, (Calmet) or…
The houses. Hebrew, "and for the dwellings, (Calmet) or villages." (Pagnin) (Menochius) --- Villages. Literally, "daughters," which is often used in this sense. (Haydock)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain some of the children of Judah dwelt at Kirjath-arba--The…
some of the children of Judah dwelt at Kirjath-arba--The whole region in which the villages here mentioned were situated had been completely devastated by the Chaldean invasion; and, therefore, it must be assumed, that these villages had been rebuilt before "the children dwelt in them."
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 25. And for the villages — Or we may…
25. And for the villages — Or we may render, now in respect to the villages. The writer thus turns to an enumeration of the towns or villages of the province in which children of Judah and Benjamin dwelt.
Kirjath-arba — The same is Hebron. See on Jos_10:3.
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Dibon is probably identical with the Dimonah of Jos_15:22, and Jekabzeel with the Kabzeel of Jos_15:21; towns in the extreme south of Judah, whose sites have not been clearly identified.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 25. And for the villages, with their fields] The…
25. And for the villages, with their fields] The preposition ‘for’ = ‘with respect to.’ The verse takes up the thread which had been interrupted by the parenthesis (21–24).
at Kirjath-arba, and in the villages thereof] R.V. in Kirjath-arba and the towns (Marg. Heb. daughters thereof).
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Kirjath-arba, the old name of Hebron (Gen_23:2; Jos_14:15), the capital of the tribe of Judah (cf. 2Sa_2:1-4). Rawlinson conjectures that ‘during the captivity the old name had reasserted itself.’ Its employment here is certainly peculiar. But it is more probable that the ancient name reproduces the formal language of the official register. It is noticeable that in Joshua, which contains so many of the towns mentioned in this passage, Hebron is called by its archaic name (Jos_15:54). Kirjath-arba, or the city of Arba, was traditionally so called after Arba, one of the Anakim or pre-Canaanite princes. According to others it means ‘the city of four quarters,’ ‘a Tetrapolis.’ Its modern name El-Khalil, ‘the Friend (of God),’ preserves the memory of the patriarch Abraham, who dwelt there (Genesis 13, 14, 18, 23).
It should be observed that hitherto we have had no mention of the Jews after the exile re-occupying Hebron.
‘the towns (Heb. daughters) thereof.’ By this expression is denoted the hamlets and villages adjacent to a principal town, which were dependent on it in some degree for supplies and for protection, and were originally offshoots. Cf. Num_21:25; Num_21:32; Jos_15:45; Jdg_11:26.
Dibon … Jekabzeel] Probably the same as Dimonah and Kabzeel, which occur in connexion with Moladah in Jos_15:21-22; Jos_15:26.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (25) The children of Judah are now described very…
(25) The children of Judah are now described very generally with respect to their distribution.
Kirjath-arba.—Hebron no longer, the ancient name being now recovered.
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In the villages thereof.—Literally, the daughters thereof; being a different word from the “villages” at the beginning.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And for the villages. Or, "And, as regards the…
And for the villages. Or, "And, as regards the villages." The writer here at last passes away altogether from Jerusalem, and proceeds to speak of the country population of Judaea. This was chiefly located in villages or hamlets, to each of which was attached a territory suitable for cultivation. The principal of these settlements are now enumerated, and will be found to comprise seventeen places belonging to Judah, and fifteen belonging to Benjamin. Of these thirty-two, a considerable proportion had subordinate hamlets attached to them. Kirjath-arba, or Hebron. During the captivity the old name had reasserted itself. (see Jos_14:15) Dibon is not the important Moabite town whence came the famous "Moabite Stone," but the city anciently called Dimonah, which is coupled with "Kabzeel" and "Moladah" in Jos_15:21-26. Jekabzeel is no doubt the ancient Kabzeel". (Jos_15:21)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Kiriath Arba ... Dibon ... Jekabzeel ... Jeshua ...…
Kiriath Arba ... Dibon ... Jekabzeel ... Jeshua ... Moladah ... Beth Pelet ... Hazar Shual ... Beersheba
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