Heshbon, and Jazer, together with their pasturelands.
Parallel translations
- WEB Heshbon with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs.
- KJV And Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs.
- NKJV Heshbon with its common-lands, and Jazer with its common-lands.
- NASB Heshbon with its pasture lands, and Jazer with its pasture lands.
- NLT Heshbon, and Jazer, each with its pasturelands.
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Quick answer
Heshbon and Jazer with their pasturelands complete the Gadite towns given to the Levites.
Overview
These cities, once held by the Amorite king Sihon, became part of Israel's inheritance and now homes for the Levites. The closing of this genealogy of the Levitical cities underscores that God kept His promise to provide for the tribe set apart for His service. The whole list testifies to a faithful God who orders the life of His people down to where each ministering family would dwell.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Josh 21:39Heshbon, and Jazer—four cities in all, together with their pasturelands.
- Num 21:32After Moses had sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.
- Num 21:25Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages.
- Num 32:3“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
- Song 7:4Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, facing toward Damascus.
- Deut 2:24“Arise, set out, and cross the Arnon Valley. See, I have delivered into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle.
- Num 32:1Now the Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, and they saw that the region was suitable for livestock.
- Neh 9:22You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.
- Josh 13:25–26The territory of Jazer, all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites as far as Aroer, near Rabbah;
- Num 32:37The Reubenites built up Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,
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