The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages,
Parallel translations
- WEB The children of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns,
- BSB The descendants of Benjamin from Geba lived in Michmash, Aija, and Bethel with its villages;
- NKJV Also the children of Benjamin from Geba dwelt in Michmash, Aija, and Bethel, and their villages;
- NASB The sons of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, at Bethel and its towns,
- NLT Some of the people of Benjamin lived at Geba, Micmash, Aija, and Bethel with its settlements.
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Quick answer
The Benjamites settled from Geba through Michmash, Bethel, and their towns. The tribe of Benjamin also reoccupied its territory.
Overview
Turning from Judah to Benjamin, the list records towns north of Jerusalem that the Benjamites resettled. Places like Bethel and Michmash carried deep historical significance in Israel's past. Their reoccupation shows that the restoration embraced both remaining tribes, reestablishing the people throughout the land God had given them.
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- Gen 12:8And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.
- Josh 18:13And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Bethhoron.
- Neh 7:30–32The men of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one.
- Gen 28:19And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
- Isa 10:28He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
- Josh 8:9Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
- 1 Sam 13:11And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;
- Josh 18:24And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:
- 1 Sam 13:23And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
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