And Ashan with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs:
Parallel translations
- WEB Ashan with its suburbs, and Beth Shemesh with its suburbs;
- BSB Ashan, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, together with their pasturelands.
- NKJV Ashan with its common-lands, and Beth Shemesh with its common-lands.
- NASB Ashan with its pasture lands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands;
- NLT Ain, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh.
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Quick answer
Ashan and Beth Shemesh with their pasturelands were also given to the priests. The allotment of priestly cities continues.
Overview
These additional towns completed part of the priests' inheritance within Judah and its borders. Beth Shemesh later figures in the account of the ark's return from the Philistines (1 Samuel 6). The placement of priests in such towns kept God's ministers present where his people lived and where his acts of deliverance unfolded.
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- Josh 21:16And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
- Josh 15:42Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
- Jer 43:13He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.
- 1 Sam 6:12–19And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.
- 1 Chr 4:32And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:
- Josh 15:10And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah:
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