Keilah, Aczib, and Mareshah—nine towns with their surrounding villages.
Parallel translations
- WEB Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.
- 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.
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Quick answer
Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah complete the group, nine cities with villages. Keilah, a city David delivered, is included.
Overview
Keilah was a town David rescued from the Philistines, though its citizens would have handed him to Saul (1 Samuel 23:1-13). Mareshah later became a fortified city of Judah (2 Chronicles 11:8). The tally records another portion of Judah's lowland inheritance bound up with later sacred history.
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Cross-references · 3
- Gen 38:5She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.
- 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.
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