Joshua 21:21 - Revised Standard Version CI

²¹ To them were given Shechem, the city of refuge for the slayer, with its pasture lands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasture lands,

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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,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ Of the tribe of Ephraim, Sichem one of the cities of refuge, with the suburbs thereof in mount Ephraim, and Gazer,

Joshua 21:21 Cross References

Genesis 33:19

And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, he bought for a hundred pieces of money the piece of land on which he had pitched his tent.

2 Samuel 5:25

And David did as the Lord commanded him, and smote the Philistines from Geba to Gezer.

1 Kings 12:1

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

1 Chronicles 6:67

They were given the cities of refuge: Shechem with its pasture lands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasture lands,

Joshua 10:33

Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he left none remaining.

Joshua 16:10

However they did not drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: so the Canaanites have dwelt in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have become slaves to do forced labor.

Joshua 20:7

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

Joshua 21:22

Kibza-im with its pasture lands, Beth-horon with its pasture lands—four cities;

Judges 17:1

There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

Judges 9:1

Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's kinsmen and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother's family,