Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,
Parallel translations
- WEB Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash.
- BSB Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai from the brooks of Gaash,
- NKJV Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai from the brooks of Gaash,
- NASB Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,
- NLT Benaiah from Pirathon; Hurai from Nahale-gaash;
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Benaiah the Pirathonite and Hiddai from the brooks of Gaash are recorded.
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Cross-references · 7
- Judg 12:15And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.
- Josh 24:30And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.
- 1 Chr 27:14The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
- Judg 2:9And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.
- Judg 12:13And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel.
- Deut 1:24And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
- 1 Chr 11:31–32Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, that pertained to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
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