Joshua 21:39
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Heshbon, and Jazer—four cities in all, together with their pasturelands.”
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BSBPD
“Heshbon, and Jazer—four cities in all, together with their pasturelands.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs; four cities in all.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Heshbon and its suburbs, Jazer and its suburbs--<FI> in<Fi> all four cities.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Joshua 21:39 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 21:26Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land as far as the Arnon.
- Numbers 32:1Now the Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, and they saw that the region was suitable for livestock.
- Numbers 32:3“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
- Numbers 32:35Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,
- Numbers 32:37The Reubenites built up Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,
- Joshua 13:17to Heshbon and all its cities on the plateau, including Dibon, Bamoth-baal, Beth-baal-meon,
- Joshua 13:21all the cities of the plateau and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon until Moses killed him and the chiefs of Midian (Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba), the princes of Sihon who lived in the land.
- 1 Chronicles 6:81Heshbon, and Jazer, together with their pasturelands.
- 1 Chronicles 26:31As for the Hebronites, Jerijah was the chief of the Hebronites, according to the genealogies of his ancestors. In the fortieth year of David’s reign the records were searched, and strong, capable men were found among the Hebronites at Jazer in Gilead.
- Isaiah 16:8For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.
- Jeremiah 48:32I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah, more than I weep for Jazer. Your tendrils have extended to the sea; they reach even to Jazer. The destroyer has descended on your summer fruit and grape harvest.
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