The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains. The mountains of Bashan are rugged.
Parallel translations
- KJV The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan.
- BSB A mountain of God is Mount Bashan; a mountain of many peaks is Mount Bashan.
- NKJV A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; A mountain of many peaks is the mountain of Bashan.
- NASB ¶The mountain of Bashan is a mountain of God; The mountain of Bashan is a mountain of many peaks.
- NLT The mountains of Bashan are majestic, with many peaks stretching high into the sky.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Ps 87:1–2A Psalm by the sons of Korah; a Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains.
- Deut 3:10We took all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
- Isa 2:2–3It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.
- Mic 7:14Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the middle of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
- Ps 78:68–69But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
- Ps 2:6“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
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