HEBRON

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• Genesis 23:2

  Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

• Genesis 35:27

  Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.

• Exodus 6:18

  The sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred thirty-three years.

• Numbers 3:19

  The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

• Numbers 13:22

  They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

• Joshua 10:3

  Therefore Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying,

• Joshua 10:4

  “Come up to me and help me. Let us strike Gibeon; for they have made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.”

• Joshua 10:5

  Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together and went up, they and all their armies, and encamped against Gibeon, and made war against it.

• Joshua 10:6

  The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, “Don’t abandon your servants! Come up to us quickly and save us! Help us; for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill country have gathered together against us.”

• Joshua 10:7

  So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he, and the whole army with him, including all the mighty men of valor.

• Joshua 10:8

  Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t fear them, for I have delivered them into your hands. Not a man of them will stand before you.”

• Joshua 10:9

  Joshua therefore came to them suddenly. He marched from Gilgal all night.

• Joshua 10:10

  Yahweh confused them before Israel. He killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah.

• Joshua 10:11

  As they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, Yahweh hurled down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.

• Joshua 10:12

  Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel. He said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!”

• Joshua 10:13

  The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn’t this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and didn’t hurry to go down about a whole day.

• Joshua 10:14

  There was no day like that before it or after it, that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man; for Yahweh fought for Israel.

• Joshua 10:15

  Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.

• Joshua 10:16

  These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.

• Joshua 10:17

  Joshua was told, saying, “The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.”

• Joshua 10:18

  Joshua said, “Roll large stones to cover the cave’s entrance, and set men by it to guard them;

• Joshua 10:19

  but don’t stay there. Pursue your enemies, and attack them from the rear. Don’t allow them to enter into their cities; for Yahweh your God has delivered them into your hand.”

• Joshua 10:20

  When Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

• Joshua 10:21

  all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace. None moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.

• Joshua 10:22

  Then Joshua said, “Open the cave entrance, and bring those five kings out of the cave to me.”

• Joshua 10:23

  They did so, and brought those five kings out of the cave to him: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.

• Joshua 10:24

  When they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, “Come near. Put your feet on the necks of these kings.” They came near, and put their feet on their necks.

• Joshua 10:25

  Joshua said to them, “Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be strong and courageous, for Yahweh will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight.”

• Joshua 10:26

  Afterward Joshua struck them, put them to death, and hanged them on five trees. They were hanging on the trees until the evening.

• Joshua 10:27

  At the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and threw them into the cave in which they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.

• Joshua 10:28

  Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king. He utterly destroyed it and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. He did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

• Joshua 10:29

  Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought against Libnah.

• Joshua 10:30

  Yahweh delivered it also, with its king, into the hand of Israel. He struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining in it. He did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

• Joshua 10:31

  Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it.

• Joshua 10:32

  Yahweh delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel. He took it on the second day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with all the souls who were in it, according to all that he had done to Libnah.

• Joshua 10:33

  Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he had left him no one remaining.

• Joshua 10:34

  Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to Eglon; and they encamped against it fought against it.

• Joshua 10:35

  They took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.

• Joshua 10:36

  Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to Hebron; and they fought against it.

• Joshua 10:37

  They took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king and all its cities, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were in it.

• Joshua 10:38

  Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and fought against it.

• Joshua 10:39

  He took it, with its king and all its cities. They struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. As he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to its king; as he had done also to Libnah, and to its king.

• Joshua 11:21

  Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.

• Joshua 14:6

  Then the children of Judah came near to Joshua in Gilgal. Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the thing that Yahweh spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh Barnea.

• Joshua 14:7

  I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land. I brought him word again as it was in my heart.

• Joshua 14:8

  Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.

• Joshua 14:9

  Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land where you walked shall be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you have wholly followed Yahweh my God.’

• Joshua 14:10

  “Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today.

• Joshua 14:11

  As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me. As my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war, to go out and to come in.

• Joshua 14:12

  Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Yahweh spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and great and fortified cities. It may be that Yahweh will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh said.”

• Joshua 14:13

  Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.

• Joshua 14:14

  Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he followed Yahweh, the God of Israel wholeheartedly.

• Joshua 14:15

  Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man among the Anakim. Then the land had rest from war.

• Joshua 15:13

  He gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua, even Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (also called Hebron).

• Joshua 19:28

  and Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah, even to great Sidon.

• Joshua 20:7

  They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

• Joshua 21:11

  They gave them Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (also called Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its suburbs around it.

• Joshua 21:13

  To the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the man slayer, Libnah with its suburbs,

• Judges 1:10

  Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron. (The name of Hebron before that was Kiriath Arba.) They struck Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

• Judges 1:20

  They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said, and he drove the three sons of Anak out of there.

• 2 Samuel 2:1

  After this, David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?” Yahweh said to him, “Go up.” David said, “Where shall I go up?” He said, “To Hebron.”

• 2 Samuel 2:2

  So David went up there with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

• 2 Samuel 2:3

  David brought up his men who were with him, every man with his household. They lived in the cities of Hebron.

• 2 Samuel 2:4

  The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, “The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul.”

• 2 Samuel 2:5

  David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said to them, “Blessed are you by Yahweh, that you have shown this kindness to your lord, even to Saul, and have buried him.

• 2 Samuel 2:6

  Now may Yahweh show loving kindness and truth to you. I also will reward you for this kindness, because you have done this thing.

• 2 Samuel 2:7

  Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.”

• 2 Samuel 2:8

  Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s army, had taken Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

• 2 Samuel 2:9

  and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.

• 2 Samuel 2:10

  Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.

• 2 Samuel 2:11

  The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

• 2 Samuel 3:32

  They buried Abner in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at Abner’s grave; and all the people wept.

• 2 Samuel 4:12

  David commanded his young men, and they killed them, cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in Abner’s grave in Hebron.

• 2 Samuel 5:1

  Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and spoke, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.

• 2 Samuel 5:2

  In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led Israel out and in. Yahweh said to you, ‘You will be shepherd of my people Israel, and you will be prince over Israel.’”

• 2 Samuel 5:3

  So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel.

• 2 Samuel 5:4

  David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

• 2 Samuel 5:5

  In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.

• 2 Samuel 15:9

  The king said to him, “Go in peace.” So he arose, and went to Hebron.

• 2 Samuel 15:10

  But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron!’”

• 1 Chronicles 6:2

  The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.

• 1 Chronicles 6:18

  The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

• 1 Chronicles 23:12

  The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.

• 1 Chronicles 23:19

  The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.

• 2 Chronicles 11:10

  Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin.

• Nehemiah 11:25

  As for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and its towns, in Dibon and its towns, in Jekabzeel and its villages,