The man went into the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.
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- KJV And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz: which is the name thereof unto this day.
- BSB And the man went to the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.
- NKJV And the man went to the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.
- NASB Then the man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city, and named it Luz, which is its name to this day.
- NLT Later the man moved to the land of the Hittites, where he built a town. He named it Luz, which is its name to this day.
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- 2 Kgs 7:6For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear the sound of chariots, and the sound of horses, even the noise of a great army; and they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us.”
- 2 Chr 1:17They brought up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty. They also exported them to the Hittite kings and the Syrian kings.
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