Some of the people of Benjamin lived at Geba, Micmash, Aija, and Bethel with its settlements.
Parallel translations
- WEB The children of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns,
- KJV The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages,
- 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,
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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.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Gen 12:8He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.
- Josh 18:13The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (also called Bethel), southward. The border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower.
- Neh 7:30–32The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.
- Gen 28:19He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
- Isa 10:28He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.
- Josh 8:9Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.
- 1 Sam 13:11Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn’t come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;
- Josh 18:24Chephar Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages.
- 1 Sam 13:23The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.
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