KJV King James Version
Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all.
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Joshua 21:39
Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Heshbon, and Jazer—four cities in all, together with their pasturelands.
WEB World English Bible
Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs; four cities in all.
ASV American Standard Version
Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs; four cities in all.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Heshbon and its suburbs, Jazer and its suburbs—in all four cities.
Surrounding context — Joshua 21
36 And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahazah with her suburbs,
37 Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities.
38 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs,
39 Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all.
40 So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were [by] their lot twelve cities.
41 All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel [were] forty and eight cities with their suburbs.
42 These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus [were] all these cities.
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Isaiah 16:8-9For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come [even] unto Jazer, they wandered [through] the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.Numbers 21:26-30For Heshbon [was] the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.Jeremiah 48:32O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach [even] to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.1 Chronicles 6:81And Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs.Joshua 13:21And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, [which were] dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country.Numbers 32:1Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place [was] a place for cattle;Numbers 32:3Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,Joshua 13:17Heshbon, and all her cities that [are] in the plain; Dibon, and Bamothbaal, and Bethbaalmeon,Numbers 32:35And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,Numbers 32:37And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,
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