Joshua 21:21
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“From the tribe of Ephraim they were given Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the manslayer), Gezer,”
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“From the tribe of Ephraim they were given Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the manslayer), Gezer,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,”
King James Version · Public Domain“And they gave them Shechem with its suburbs in the hill-country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Gezer with its suburbs,”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and they give to them the city of refuge <FI>for<Fi> the man-slayer, Shechem and its suburbs, in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Gezer and its suburbs,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Joshua 21:21 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 33:19And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.
- Joshua 10:33At that time Horam king of Gezer went to help Lachish, but Joshua struck him down along with his people, leaving no survivors.
- Joshua 16:10But they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. So the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, but they are forced laborers.
- Joshua 20:7So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
- Judges 9:1Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his mother,
- Judges 17:1Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim
- 1 Kings 9:15This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
- 1 Kings 12:1Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.
- 1 Chronicles 6:67They were given Shechem (a city of refuge) with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer,
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