and the border turned about from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim on the north (the same is Chesalon), and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed along by Timnah:
1 Kings 4:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Ben-deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan: More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 the son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Ben-deker, in Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan; American Standard Version (1901) Ben-deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan; Common English Bible Ben-deker in Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth-shemesh, and Elon-bethhanan; Catholic Public Domain Version Bendeker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and in Beth-shemesh, and in Elon, and in Beth-hanan; Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Bendecar, in Macces, and in Salebim, and in Bethsames, and in Elon, and in Bethanan. |
and the border turned about from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim on the north (the same is Chesalon), and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed along by Timnah:
and Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
but the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributary.
And the kine took the straight way by the way to Beth-shemesh; they went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Beth-shemesh.
And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
And see, if it goeth up by the way of its own border to Beth-shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us.