Joshua 14:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba; Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ And the name of Hebron before was Kirjath-arba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ The name of Hebron before was Kiriath-arba [city of Arba]. This Arba was the greatest of the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ Now the name of Hebron beforetime was Kiriath-arba; which Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ (Hebron used to be called Kiriath-arba. Arba had been the greatest of the Anakim.) Then the land rested from war.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ Previously, the name Hebron was called Kiriath-Arba. Adam, the greatest among the Anakim, was laid there. And the land ceased from battles.

Joshua 14:15 Cross References

Joshua 11:23

So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses, and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war.

Genesis 23:2

And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

Judges 3:11

So the land had rest forty years. Then Othniel son of Kenaz died.

Joshua 15:13

But to Caleb son of Jephunneh, Joshua gave a portion among the people of Judah according to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron (Arba was the father of Anak).

Judges 8:28

So Midian was subdued before the Israelites, and they lifted up their heads no more. So the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.

Judges 5:31

So perish all your enemies, O Lord! But may your friends be like the sun as it rises in its might.” And the land had rest forty years.

Judges 3:30

So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest eighty years.

Genesis 35:27

Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had resided as aliens.

Genesis 37:14

So he said to him, “Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him from the valley of Hebron. He came to Shechem,

Joshua 14:14

So Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholeheartedly followed the Lord, the God of Israel.

Joshua 21:11

They gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is, Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with the pasturelands around it.

Nehemiah 11:25

And as for the villages, with their fields, some of the people of Judah lived in Kiriath-arba and its villages, and in Dibon and its villages, and in Jekabzeel and its villages,

Joshua 21:12

But the fields of the town and its villages had been given to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his holding.

Judges 1:20

Hebron was given to Caleb, as Moses had said, and he drove out from it the three sons of Anak.

1 Samuel 30:31

in Hebron, all the places where David and his men had roamed.

1 Chronicles 6:4

Eleazar became the father of Phinehas, Phinehas of Abishua,