Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon. All the cities are twenty-nine, with their villages.
Parallel translations
- KJV And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:
- BSB Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon—twenty-nine cities in all, along with their villages.
- NKJV Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty-nine, with their villages.
- NASB Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon; in all, twenty-nine cities with their villages.
- NLT Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon—twenty-nine towns with their surrounding villages.
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Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon complete the southern group, totaling twenty-nine cities with their villages. The count is summarized.
Overview
The summary total reflects an administrative record of Judah's southern possessions, with apparent differences in counting resolved by towns later assigned to Simeon or grouped under larger centers. The careful tally shows the orderliness of the inheritance. God's gift was both generous and precisely accounted.
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