KJV King James Version
And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities [were] Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Joshua 9:17
And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities [were] Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
So the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities—Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.
WEB World English Bible
The children of Israel traveled and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.
ASV American Standard Version
And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And the sons of Israel journey and come in unto their cities on the third day—and their cities are Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-Jearim—
Surrounding context — Joshua 9
14 And the men took of their victuals, and asked not [counsel] at the mouth of the LORD.
15 And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.
16 And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they [were] their neighbours, and [that] they dwelt among them.
17 And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities [were] Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.
18 And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.
19 But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.
20 This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.
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וַיִּסְע֣וּH5265 · na.sato set outבְנֵֽי־H1121 · benson: childיִשְׂרָאֵ֗לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelוַיָּבֹ֛אוּH935 · boto come (in): comeאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)עָרֵיהֶ֖םH5892 · irexcitementבַּיּ֣וֹםH3117 · yomdayהַשְּׁלִישִׁ֑יH7992 · she.li.shithirdוְעָרֵיהֶם֙H5892 · irexcitementגִּבְע֣וֹןH1391 · giv.onGibeonוְהַכְּפִירָ֔הH3716 · ke.phi.rahChephirahוּבְאֵר֖וֹתH881 · be.e.rotBeerothוְקִרְיַ֥תH7157 · qir.yat ye.a.rimKiriath-jearimיְעָרִֽים׃H7157 · qir.yat ye.a.rimKiriath-jearim
Cross-references
Ezra 2:25The children of Kirjatharim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three.Joshua 18:25-28Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,1 Samuel 7:1And the men of Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the ark of the LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD.1 Chronicles 13:5-6So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjathjearim.Joshua 15:9And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which [is] Kirjathjearim:1 Chronicles 21:29For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, [were] at that season in the high place at Gibeon.Nehemiah 7:29The men of Kirjathjearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three.Joshua 15:60Kirjathbaal, which [is] Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages:Joshua 10:2That they feared greatly, because Gibeon [was] a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it [was] greater than Ai, and all the men thereof [were] mighty.Joshua 18:14And the border was drawn [thence], and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that [lieth] before Bethhoron southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which [is] Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of Judah: this [was] the west quarter.2 Chronicles 1:3-4So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that [was] at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.
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