Joshua 21:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 1 Chr 6:55 : 55 To them they gave Hebron and its outskirts in the land of Judah;
  • Luke 1:39 : 39 Then Mary got up and went quickly into the high lands, to a town of Judah;
  • Gen 23:2 : 2 And Sarah's death took place in Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan: and Abraham went into his house, weeping and sorrowing for Sarah.
  • Gen 35:27 : 27 And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had been living.
  • 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.
  • Josh 15:13-14 : 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. 14 And the three sons of Anak, Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the children of Anak, were forced out from there by Caleb.
  • Josh 15:54 : 54 And Humtah, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron), and Zior; nine towns with their unwalled places.
  • Josh 20:7-9 : 7 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. 8 And 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. 9 These 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.
  • Judg 1:10 : 10 And 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.
  • 2 Sam 2:1-3 : 1 Now after this, David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go up into any of the towns of Judah? And the Lord said to him, Go up. And David said, Where am I to go? And he said, To Hebron. 2 So David went there, taking with him his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel. 3 And David took all his men with him, every man with his family: and they were living in the towns round Hebron.
  • 2 Sam 5:1-5 : 1 Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron and said, Truly, we are your bone and your flesh. 2 In the past when Saul was king over us, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in: and the Lord said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel and their ruler. 3 So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel. 4 David was thirty years old when he became king, and he was king for forty years, 5 Ruling over Judah in Hebron for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem, over all Israel and Judah, for thirty-three years.
  • 2 Sam 15:7 : 7 Now at the end of four years, Absalom said to the king, Let me go to Hebron and give effect to the oath which I made to the Lord:

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  • Josh 15:13-15
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    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.

    14 And the three sons of Anak, Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the children of Anak, were forced out from there by Caleb.

    15 From there he went up against the people of Debir: (now the name of Debir before that was Kiriath-sepher.)

  • 1 Chr 6:55-58
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    55 To them they gave Hebron and its outskirts in the land of Judah;

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

    57 And 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,

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

  • Josh 21:12-15
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    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;

    14 And Jattir with its grass-lands, and Eshtemoa with its grass-lands;

    15 And Holon with its grass-lands, and Debir with its grass-lands;

  • Josh 14:12-15
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    12 So 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.

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

    14 So 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.

    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.

  • Judg 1:20
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    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.

  • Judg 1:9-11
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    9 After that the children of Judah went down to make war on the Canaanites living in the hill-country and in the south and in the lowlands.

    10 And 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.

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

  • Josh 21:9-10
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    9 From the tribes of the children of Judah and the children of Simeon they gave these towns, listed here by name:

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

  • Josh 20:7
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    7 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.

  • Josh 15:53-54
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    53 And Janim, and Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah;

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

  • Neh 11:25
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    25 And 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,

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

  • Num 13:22
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    22 They went up into the South and came to Hebron; and Ahiman and Sheshai and Talmai, the children of Anak, were living there. (Now the building of Hebron took place seven years before that of Zoan in Egypt.)

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

    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;

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

  • Josh 11:21
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    21 And Joshua came at that time and put an end to the Anakim in the hill-country, in Hebron, in Debir, in Anab, and in all the hill-country of Judah and Israel: Joshua gave them and their towns to the curse.

  • Josh 21:31
    71%

    31 Helkath and Rehob with their grass-lands, four towns.

  • Gen 35:27
    71%

    27 And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had been living.

  • Josh 21:3-4
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    71%

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

    4 And the heritage came out for the families of the Kohathites: the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.

  • Gen 15:21
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    21 And the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.

  • Josh 21:42
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    42 Every one of these towns had grass-lands round it.

  • Josh 11:3
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    3 And 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 13:28
    69%

    28 But the people living in the land are strong, and the towns are walled and very great; further, we saw the children of Anak there.

  • Neh 11:30
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    30 Zanoah, Adullam and their daughter-towns, Lachish and its fields, Azekah and its daughter-towns. So they were living from Beer-sheba to the valley of Hinnom.

  • Deut 2:21
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    21 They were a great people, tall as the Anakim, and equal to them in number; but the Lord sent destruction on them and the children of Ammon took their place, living in their land;

  • 1 Sam 30:31
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    31 And in Hebron, and to all the places where David and his men had been living.

  • Josh 12:10
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    10 The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;

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

  • Josh 19:50
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    50 By 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 18:28
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    28 And Zela, Eleph and the Jebusite (which is Jerusalem), Gibeath and Kiriath; fourteen towns with their unwalled places. This is the heritage of the children of Benjamin by their families.

  • Gen 10:16
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    16 And the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite,