These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. (This is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness as he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.)
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- WEB These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father.
- KJV And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.
- NKJV These were the sons of Zibeon: both Ajah and Anah. This was the Anah who found the water in the wilderness as he pastured the donkeys of his father Zibeon.
- NASB And these are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah—he is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness when he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.
- NLT The descendants of Zibeon were Aiah and Anah. (This is the Anah who discovered the hot springs in the wilderness while he was grazing his father’s donkeys.)
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This names Zibeon's sons and notes that Anah found hot springs in the wilderness while tending donkeys. It preserves a small detail of Horite history.
Overview
Among Zibeon's sons, Anah is remembered for discovering hot springs in the desert while pasturing his father's donkeys. The unusual detail, whose exact meaning is debated, simply marks Anah as a notable figure. Such ordinary human stories woven into the genealogy show how Scripture grounds salvation history in real places and people.
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- Lev 19:19You are to keep My statutes. You shall not crossbreed two different kinds of livestock; you shall not sow your fields with two kinds of seed; and you shall not wear clothing made of two kinds of material.
- Deut 2:10(The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.
- 1 Kgs 4:28Each one also brought to the required place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and other horses.
- 1 Kgs 1:38Then Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, along with the Cherethites and Pelethites, went down and set Solomon on King David’s mule, and they escorted him to Gihon.
- 1 Kgs 1:44And with Solomon, the king has sent Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, along with the Cherethites and Pelethites, and they have set him on the king’s mule.
- 2 Sam 18:9Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.
- 2 Sam 13:29So Absalom’s young men did to Amnon just as Absalom had ordered. Then all the other sons of the king got up, and each one fled on his mule.
- Zech 14:15And a similar plague will strike the horses and mules, camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps.
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