KJV King James Version
According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, [even] Timnathserah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.
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Joshua 19:50
According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, [even] Timnathserah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
as the LORD had commanded. They gave him the city of Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, as he requested. He rebuilt the city and settled in it.
WEB World English Bible
According to the commandment of Yahweh, they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in the hill country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and lived there.
ASV American Standard Version
according to the commandment of Jehovah they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnath-serah in the hill-country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and dwelt therein.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
by the command of Jehovah they have given to him the city which he asked, Timnath-Serah, in the hill-country of Ephraim, and he buildeth the city and dwelleth in it.
Surrounding context — Joshua 19
47 And the coast of the children of Dan went out [too little] for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.
48 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.
49 When they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them:
50 According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, [even] Timnathserah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.
51 These [are] the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country.
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עַל־H5921 · aluponפִּ֨יH6310 · pehlipיְהוָ֜הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDנָ֣תְנוּH5414 · na.tanto give: giveל֗וֹH9033 · ohimאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הָעִיר֙H5892 · irexcitementאֲשֶׁ֣רH834 · a.sherwhichשָׁאָ֔לH7592 · sha.alto askאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]תִּמְנַת־H8556 · tim.nat che.resTimnath-heresסֶ֖רַחH8556 · tim.nat che.resTimnath-heresבְּהַ֣רH2022 · harmountain: mountאֶפְרָ֑יִםH669 · eph.ra.yimEphraimוַיִּבְנֶ֥הH1129 · ba.nahto buildאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הָעִ֖ירH5892 · irexcitementוַיֵּ֥שֶׁבH3427 · ya.shavto dwellבָּֽהּ׃H9034 · haher
Cross-references
Joshua 24:30And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which [is] in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.Judges 2:9And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.1 Chronicles 7:24(And his daughter [was] Sherah, who built Bethhoron the nether, and the upper, and Uzzensherah.)
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