Joshua 21:39 - Easy To Read Version Heshbon, and Jazer. In all, Gad gave them four towns and some land around each town for their animals. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Heshbon, and Jazer; four cities in all, each with its pasturelands (suburbs). American Standard Version (1901) Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs; four cities in all. Common English Bible Heshbon and its pastures; Jazer and its pastures; in total: four cities. Catholic Public Domain Version And so all the cities of the Levites, in the midst of the possession of the sons of Israel, were forty-eight, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So all the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight, |
The family history of the Hebron family shows that Jeriah was their leader. When David had been king for 40 years, he ordered his people to search through the family histories for strong and skilled men. Some of those men were found among the Hebron family living in the town of Jazer in Gilead.
I cry with the people of Jazer for Jazer.\par Sibmah, in the past your vines\par spread all the way to the sea.\par They reached as far as the town of Jazer.\par But the Destroyer has taken your fruit\par and grapes.\par
The family groups of Reuben and Gad had many, many cows. Those people looked at the land near Jazer and Gilead. They saw that this land was good for their cows.
The land continued to Heshbon. It included all the towns on the plain. Those towns were Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,
So that land included all the towns on the plain and all the area that Sihon the king of the Amorite people had ruled. That king ruled at the town of Heshbon. But Moses had defeated him and the leaders of the Midianite people. Those leaders were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba. (All these leaders fought together with Sihon.) All these leaders lived in that country.
The land of Jazer and all the towns of Gilead. Moses also gave them half of the land of the Ammonite people as far as Aroer near Rabbah.
The family group of Gad gave them Ramoth in Gilead. (Ramoth was a city of safety.) They also gave them Mahanaim,
In all, the last family of Levites, the Merari family, got twelve towns.