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