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in Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
Nehemiah 11:32 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
  • KJV And at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
  • NKJV in Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah;
  • NASB at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
  • NLT They also lived in Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,

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Quick answer

The Benjamites also lived in Anathoth, Nob, and Ananiah. The settlement of Benjamin's towns continues.

Overview

Anathoth was the hometown of the prophet Jeremiah (Jeremiah 1:1), and Nob had once been a city of priests. The reoccupation of these towns links the restored community to its prophetic and priestly heritage. The record affirms God's faithfulness in restoring even places marked by earlier judgment and significance.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 7

  • Josh 21:18Anathoth, and Almon—four cities, together with their pasturelands.
  • 1 Sam 21:1Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And when Ahimelech met David, he trembled and asked him, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”
  • Isa 10:30Cry aloud, O Daughter of Gallim! Listen, O Laishah! O wretched Anathoth!
  • Isa 10:32Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.
  • Neh 7:27the men of Anathoth, 128;
  • 1 Sam 22:19He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.
  • Jer 1:1These are the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.

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Christ at the center

The rebuilt walls and renewed covenant community foreshadow the greater builder who gathers and secures a people for God, the one who declares 'I will build my church.'

How Nehemiah 11:32 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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