These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
Parallel translations
- KJV And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:
- BSB and these were their names: Ben-hur in the hill country of Ephraim;
- ESV These were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
- NKJV These are their names: Ben-Hur, in the mountains of Ephraim;
- NASB And these were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
- NLT These are the names of the twelve governors: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim.
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Cross-references · 3
- Josh 24:33Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
- Judg 17:1There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
- Judg 19:1In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.
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