And Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs.
Parallel translations
- WEB Heshbon with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs.
- BSB Heshbon, and Jazer, together with their pasturelands.
- 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
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- Josh 21:39Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all.
- Num 21:32And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
- Num 21:25And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.
- Num 32:3Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
- Song 7:4Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
- Deut 2:24Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
- Num 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;
- Neh 9:22Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
- Josh 13:25–26And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah;
- Num 32:37And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,
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