KJV King James Version
Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs; four cities.
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Joshua 21:18
Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs; four cities.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Anathoth, and Almon—four cities, together with their pasturelands.
WEB World English Bible
Anathoth with its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs; four cities.
ASV American Standard Version
Anathoth with its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs; four cities.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Anathoth and its suburbs, and Almon and its suburbs—four cities;
Surrounding context — Joshua 21
15 And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs,
16 And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, [and] Bethshemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,
18 Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs; four cities.
19 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, [were] thirteen cities with their suburbs.
20 And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
21 For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,
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Jeremiah 1:1The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that [were] in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:1 Chronicles 6:60And out of the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with her suburbs, and Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs. All their cities throughout their families [were] thirteen cities.Isaiah 10:30Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.1 Kings 2:26And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou [art] worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
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