Joshua 19:15

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“It also included Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem. There were twelve cities, along with their villages.”

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BSBPD

“It also included Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem. There were twelve cities, along with their villages.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth–lehem: twelve cities with their villages.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-Lehem; twelve cities and their villages.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Joshua 19:15 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Joshua 11:1Now when Jabin king of Hazor heard about these things, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon; to the kings of Shimron and Achshaph;
  2. Joshua 12:20the king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;
  3. Joshua 21:34This is what the Merarite clan (the rest of the Levites) were given:
  4. Joshua 21:35From the tribe of Zebulun they were given Jokneam, Kartah, Dimnah, and Nahalal—four cities, together with their pasturelands.
  5. Judges 1:30Zebulun failed to drive out the inhabitants of Kitron and Nahalol; so the Canaanites lived among them and served as forced laborers.
  6. Judges 12:8After Jephthah, Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
  7. Judges 17:7And there was a young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah who had been residing within the clan of Judah.
  8. Ruth 1:19So Naomi and Ruth traveled until they came to Bethlehem. When they entered Bethlehem, the whole city was stirred because of them, and the women of the city exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”
  9. 2 Samuel 23:15David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”
  10. 2 Chronicles 11:6He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

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