Included also were Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob; twenty-two cities with their villages.
Parallel translations
- WEB Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty-two cities with their villages.
- KJV Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.
- BSB Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob. There were twenty-two cities, along with their villages.
- NKJV Also Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob were included: twenty-two cities with their villages.
- NLT Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob—twenty-two towns with their surrounding villages.
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Quick answer
Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob complete the list, totaling twenty-two cities with their villages. This tally closes the catalog of Asher's towns.
Overview
The summary number of twenty-two cities rounds out Asher's inheritance. As with the other tribes, the careful counting underscores that God's gift was definite and abundant. Each named city testifies that the Lord fulfilled His ancient promise to give Israel a land, a tangible pledge of His enduring faithfulness.
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- 1 Kgs 20:30But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner room.
- Josh 19:28and Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah, even to great Sidon.
- Josh 21:31Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs: four cities.
- Num 13:11Of the tribe of Joseph, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
- 1 Sam 4:1The word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer; and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.
- Josh 13:4on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;
- Josh 12:18the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lassharon, one;
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