Heshbon with its pasture lands, and Jazer with its pasture lands.
Parallel translations
- WEB Heshbon with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs.
- KJV And Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs.
- BSB Heshbon, and Jazer, together with their pasturelands.
- NKJV Heshbon with its common-lands, and Jazer with its common-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 its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs: four cities in all.
- Num 21:32Moses sent to spy out Jazer. They took its villages, and drove out the Amorites who were there.
- Num 21:25Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.
- Num 32:3“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
- Song 7:4Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
- Deut 2:24“Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have given into your 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 livestock. When they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for livestock;
- Neh 9:22Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you allotted according to their portions. So they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
- Josh 13:25–26Their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer that is near Rabbah;
- Num 32:37The children of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,
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