Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem.
Parallel translations
- WEB also from Beth Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had built themselves villages around Jerusalem.
- BSB from Beth-gilgal, and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for they had built villages for themselves around Jerusalem.
- NKJV from the house of Gilgal, and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth; for the singers had built themselves villages all around Jerusalem.
- NASB from Beth-gilgal and from their fields in Geba and Azmaveth, because the singers had built themselves villages around Jerusalem.
- NLT They also came from Beth-gilgal and the rural areas near Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built their own settlements around Jerusalem.
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Quick answer
Singers came also from Beth Gilgal and the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, where they had built their own villages. It matters because it shows the Levites settled and supported so they could serve God's worship.
Overview
The verse details further locations from which the singers came, noting they had established villages near Jerusalem. This settlement provision allowed them to be near the temple for ongoing ministry. God's care to provide for those who serve Him reflects His enduring concern that worship be sustained, a provision ultimately secured for His people in Christ.
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- Neh 11:31The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages,
- Ezra 2:24The children of Azmaveth, forty and two.
- Josh 10:43And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.
- Deut 11:30Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
- Josh 5:9And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.
- 1 Chr 6:60And out of the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with her suburbs, and Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.
- Josh 21:17And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,
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