1 Chronicles 6:55

Bible in Basic English (1941)

To them they gave Hebron and its outskirts in the land of Judah;

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  • Josh 14:13 : 13 And Joshua gave him his blessing; and he gave Hebron to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, for his heritage.
  • Josh 15:13 : 13 And to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, he gave a part among the children of Judah, as the Lord had given orders to Joshua, that is, Kiriath-arba, named after Arba, the father of Anak which is Hebron.
  • Josh 21:11-13 : 11 They gave them Kiriath-arba, the town of Arba, the father of Anak, (which is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah, with its grass-lands. 12 But the open country round the town, and its unwalled places, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, as his property. 13 And to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Libnah with its grass-lands;
  • Judg 1:20 : 20 And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said; and he took the land of the three sons of Anak, driving them out from there.

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  • 86%

    56But the open country of the town, and the small places round it, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.

    57And to the sons of Aaron they gave Hebron, the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, and Libnah with its outskirts, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its outskirts,

    58And Hilen with its outskirts, Debir with its outskirts,

    59And Ashan with its outskirts, and Beth-shemesh with its outskirts;

  • Josh 21:9-13
    5 verses
    83%

    9From the tribes of the children of Judah and the children of Simeon they gave these towns, listed here by name:

    10These were for the children of Aaron among the families of the Kohathites, of the children of Levi: for they came first in the distribution.

    11They gave them Kiriath-arba, the town of Arba, the father of Anak, (which is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah, with its grass-lands.

    12But the open country round the town, and its unwalled places, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, as his property.

    13And to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Libnah with its grass-lands;

  • 54Now these are their living-places, the limits inside which they were to put up their tents: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, because they had the first selection,

  • 13And to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, he gave a part among the children of Judah, as the Lord had given orders to Joshua, that is, Kiriath-arba, named after Arba, the father of Anak which is Hebron.

  • 77%

    64And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the towns with their outskirts.

    65And they gave by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these towns whose names are given.

    66And to the families of the sons of Kohath were given towns by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of Ephraim.

    67And they gave them the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim with its outskirts, and Gezer with its outskirts,

    68And Jokmeam with its outskirts, and Beth-horon with its outskirts,

    69And Aijalon with its outskirts, and Gath-rimmon with its outskirts;

  • 76%

    12So now, give me this hill-country named by the Lord at that time; for you had an account of it then, how the Anakim were there, and great walled towns: it may be that the Lord will be with me, and I will be able to take their land, as the Lord said.

    13And Joshua gave him his blessing; and he gave Hebron to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, for his heritage.

    14So Hebron became the heritage of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, to this day, because with all his heart he was true to the Lord, the God of Israel.

    15In earlier times the name of Hebron had been Kiriath-arba, named after Arba, the greatest of the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.

  • 20And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said; and he took the land of the three sons of Anak, driving them out from there.

  • Num 35:2-4
    3 verses
    73%

    2Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, towns for themselves, with land on the outskirts of the towns.

    3These towns are to be their living-places, with land round them for their cattle and their food and all their beasts,

    4Stretching from the wall of the towns a distance of a thousand cubits all round.

  • 10And Zorah and Aijalon and Hebron, walled towns in Judah and Benjamin.

  • 72%

    75And Hukok with its outskirts, and Rehob with its outskirts;

    76And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its outskirts, and Hammon with its outskirts, and Kiriathaim with its outskirts.

  • 7So they made selection of Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah.

  • 71%

    78And on the other side of Jordan, at Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the waste land with its outskirts, and Jahzah with its outskirts,

    79And Kedemoth with its outskirts, and Mephaath with its outskirts;

  • 20This is the heritage of the tribe of Judah, by their families.

  • 10And Caleb went against the Canaanites of Hebron: (now in earlier times Hebron was named Kiriath-arba:) and he put Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai to the sword.

  • 61And to the rest of the sons of Kohath there were given by the Lord's decision ten towns out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim and out of the tribe of Dan and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh.

  • 69%

    54And Humtah, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron), and Zior; nine towns with their unwalled places.

    55Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Jutah;

  • 69%

    58Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor;

    59And Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six towns with their unwalled places.

  • Josh 21:2-3
    2 verses
    69%

    2And said to them in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, The Lord gave orders by Moses that we were to have towns for living in, with their grass-lands for our cattle.

    3And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave to the Levites these towns with their grass-lands, by the order of the Lord.

  • 31And in Hebron, and to all the places where David and his men had been living.

  • 25And for the daughter-towns with their fields, some of the men of Judah were living in Kiriath-arba and its daughter-towns, and in Dibon and its daughter-towns, and in Jekabzeel and its daughter-towns,

  • 71To the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its outskirts, and Ashtaroth with its outskirts;

  • 42Every one of these towns had grass-lands round it.

  • 81And Heshbon with its outskirts, and Jazer with its outskirts.

  • 4Because the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave the Levites no part in the land, only towns for their living-places, with the grass-lands for their cattle and for their property.

  • 5And let them make division of it into seven parts: let Judah keep inside his limit on the south, and let the children of Joseph keep inside their limit on the north.

  • 55But let the distribution of the land be made by the decision of the Lord: by the names of the tribes of their fathers let their heritage be given them.