Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.
Parallel translations
- KJV And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages:
- BSB Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah—nine cities, along with their villages.
- NKJV Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah: nine cities with their villages;
- NASB Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.
- NLT Keilah, Aczib, and Mareshah—nine towns with their surrounding villages.
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Cross-references · 3
- 1 Sam 23:1–14David was told, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.”
- Mic 1:14–15Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth Gath. The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.
- Gen 38:5She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.
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