Joshua 21:21 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²¹ The Israelites gave them: Shechem,  the city of refuge for the one who commits manslaughter, with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ 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,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ To them were given, each with its pasturelands (suburbs), Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, as the city of refuge for the slayer, and Gezer,

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ 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,

Common English Bible

²¹ They gave them: Shechem, the refuge city for a killer, and its pastures in the highlands of Ephraim; Gezer and its pastures;

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ from the tribe of Ephraim, Shechem, one of the cities of refuge, with its suburbs, on mount Ephraim, and Gezer,

Joshua 21:21 Cross References

Genesis 33:19

He purchased a section of the field where he had pitched his tent from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.  ,

2 Samuel 5:25

So David did exactly as the Lord commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines all the way from Geba to Gezer.

1 Kings 12:1

Then Rehoboam  went to Shechem,  for all Israel  had gone to Shechem to make him king.

1 Chronicles 6:67

Shechem (a city of refuge) with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer and its pasturelands,

Joshua 10:33

At that time King Horam of Gezer went to help Lachish,  but Joshua struck him down along with his people, leaving no survivors.

Joshua 16:10

However, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer.  So the Canaanites still live in Ephraim today,  but they are forced labourers.

Joshua 20:7

So they designated Kedesh in the hill country of Naphtali in Galilee,  Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

Joshua 21:22

Kibzaim with its pasturelands, and Beth-horon with its pasturelands #– #four cities.

Judges 17:1

There was a man from the hill country of Ephraim named Micah.

Judges 9:1

Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem and spoke to his uncles and to his mother’s whole clan, saying,