Joshua 21:11 - Easy To Read Version

¹¹ They gave them Kiriath Arba (This is Hebron. It was named for a man named Arba. Arba was the father of Anak.) They also gave them some land near the town for their animals.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ They gave them [the city of] Kiriath-arba, Arba being the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with its pasturelands round about it.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ And they gave them Kiriath-arba, which Arba was the father of Anak (the same is Hebron), in the hill-country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.

Common English Bible

¹¹ They gave them Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the highlands of Judah and the pastures around it. (Arba was the father of Anak.)

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ the city of Arba, the father of Anak, which is called Hebron, on the mountain of Judah, and its surrounding suburbs.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ The city of Arbe the father of Enac, which is called Hebron, in the mountain of Juda, and the suburbs thereof round about.

Joshua 21:11 Cross References

Genesis 23:2

She died in the city of Kiriath Arba (Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham was very sad and cried for her there.

Genesis 35:27

Jacob went to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath Arba (Hebron). This is where Abraham and Isaac had lived.

2 Samuel 15:7

After four years, [82] Absalom said to King David, “Please let me go to complete my special promise that I made to the Lord at Hebron.

1 Chronicles 6:55

They were given the town of Hebron and the fields around it. This was in the area of Judah.

Luke 1:39

Mary got up and went quickly to a town in the hill country of Judea.

Joshua 14:15

In the past that city was called Kiriath Arba. That city was named for the greatest man among the Anakite people—a man named Arba.

Joshua 15:54

Humtah, Kiriath Arba (Hebron), and Zior. There were nine towns and all the fields around them.

Joshua 21:10

The first choice of towns was given to Levites from the Kohath family.

Joshua 21:12

But the fields and the small towns around the city of Kiriath Arba belonged to Caleb son of Jephunneh.

Judges 1:10

Then the men of Judah went to fight against the Canaanite people that lived in the city of Hebron. (Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba.) The men of Judah defeated the men named Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai. [4]

1 Samuel 30:31

and Hebron. David sent some of those things to the leaders in all the other places where David and his men had been.