Joshua 20:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So 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.

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  • Josh 21:11 : 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.
  • Josh 21:32 : 32 And from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Hammoth-dor and Kartan with their grass-lands, three towns.
  • 1 Chr 6:76 : 76 And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its outskirts, and Hammon with its outskirts, and Kiriathaim with its outskirts.
  • Luke 1:39 : 39 Then Mary got up and went quickly into the high lands, to a town of Judah;
  • Josh 21:13 : 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;
  • Josh 21:21 : 21 And they gave them Shechem with its grass-lands in the hill-country of Ephraim, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Gezer with its grass-lands;
  • Josh 14:15 : 15 In 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.
  • Gen 33:18-19 : 18 So Jacob came safely from Paddan-aram to the town of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and put up his tents near the town. 19 And for a hundred bits of money he got from the children of Hamor, the builder of Shechem, the field in which he had put up his tents.
  • 2 Chr 10:1 : 1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king.

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  • Josh 20:8-9
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    8And on the east side of Jordan at Jericho, they made selection of Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.

    9These were the towns marked out for all the children of Israel and for the man from a strange country living among them, so that anyone causing the death of another in error, might go in flight there, and not be put to death by him who has the right of punishment for blood till he had come before the meeting of the people.

  • Josh 21:20-22
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    20The rest of the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, were given towns from the tribe of Ephraim.

    21And they gave them Shechem with its grass-lands in the hill-country of Ephraim, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Gezer with its grass-lands;

    22And Kibzaim and Beth-horon with their grass-lands, four towns.

  • Josh 21:11-13
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    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;

  • Josh 21:31-32
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    31Helkath and Rehob with their grass-lands, four towns.

    32And from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Hammoth-dor and Kartan with their grass-lands, three towns.

  • 1 Chr 6:67
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    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,

  • 1 Chr 6:76
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    76And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its outskirts, and Hammon with its outskirts, and Kiriathaim with its outskirts.

  • Josh 19:37
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    37And Kedesh and Edrei and En-Hazor

  • Josh 20:6
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    6And he is to go on living in that town till he has to come before the meeting of the people to be judged; (till the death of him who is high priest at that time:) then the taker of life may come back to his town and to his house, to the town from which he had gone in flight.

  • Josh 15:13
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    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.

  • 1 Chr 6:55-57
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    55To them they gave Hebron and its outskirts in the land of Judah;

    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,

  • Deut 4:43
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    43The names of the towns were Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for Manasseh.

  • Neh 11:25
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    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,

  • Josh 15:23
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    23And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan;

  • Judg 1:10-11
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    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.

    11And from there he went up against the people of Debir. (Now the name of Debir in earlier times was Kiriath-sepher.)

  • 2 Chr 11:10
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    10And Zorah and Aijalon and Hebron, walled towns in Judah and Benjamin.

  • Deut 19:7
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    7And so I am ordering you to see that three towns are marked out for this purpose.

  • Josh 19:50
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    50By the orders of the Lord they gave him the town for which he made request, Timnath-serah in the hill-country of Ephraim: there, after building the town, he made his living-place.

  • Josh 20:2
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    2Say to the children of Israel, Let certain towns be marked out as safe places, as I said to you by the mouth of Moses,

  • Deut 19:2
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    2You are to have three towns marked out in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.

  • Josh 13:19
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    19And Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar in the mountain of the valley;

  • 1 Chr 7:28
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    28Their heritage and their living-places were Beth-el and its daughter-towns, and Naaran to the east, and Gezer to the west, with its daughter-towns, as well as Shechem and its daughter-towns as far as Azzah and its daughter-towns;

  • Josh 21:9
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    9From the tribes of the children of Judah and the children of Simeon they gave these towns, listed here by name:

  • Josh 14:15
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    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.

  • Josh 21:37
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    37Kedemoth and Mephaath with their grass-lands, four towns.

  • Josh 18:5
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    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.

  • Josh 20:4
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    4And if anyone goes in flight to one of those towns, and comes into the public place of the town, and puts his cause before the responsible men of the town, they will take him into the town and give him a place among them where he may be safe.

  • 1 Sam 30:28
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    28And to those in Arara and Eshtemoa

  • Josh 11:2-3
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    2And to the kings on the north in the hill-country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in the highlands of Dor on the west,

    3And to the Canaanites on the east and on the west, and to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill-country, and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.

  • Num 34:29
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    29These are they to whom the Lord gave orders to make the distribution of the heritage among the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

  • Josh 15:54
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    54And Humtah, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron), and Zior; nine towns with their unwalled places.

  • Deut 11:30
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    30Are they not on the other side of Jordan, looking west, in the land of the Canaanites living in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, by the holy tree of Moreh?

  • Num 35:14
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    14Three on the other side of Jordan and three in the land of Canaan, to be safe places for flight.

  • Josh 14:13
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    13And Joshua gave him his blessing; and he gave Hebron to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, for his heritage.

  • Josh 15:20
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    20This is the heritage of the tribe of Judah, by their families.

  • Josh 21:2
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    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.

  • 1 Chr 6:65
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  • Neh 11:27
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    27And in Hazar-shual, and in Beer-sheba and its daughter-towns,

  • Josh 15:9
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    9And the limit is marked out from the top of the mountain to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah, and out to the towns of Mount Ephron, as far as Baalah (which is Kiriath-jearim):

  • Josh 14:1
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    1And these are the heritages which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar, the priest, and Joshua, the son of Nun, and the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, gave out to them;

  • Josh 21:27
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    27And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, they gave from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Ashtaroth with its grass-lands, two towns.