Joshua 21:21 - Tree of Life Version

²¹ So they gave them Shechem (the city of refuge for the manslayer) with its pastures in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pastures,

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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

He purchased the portion of the field there where he had pitched his tent from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for 100 pieces of money.

2 Samuel 5:25

David did just as Adonai had commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines from Geba as far as Gezer.

1 Kings 12:1

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

Joshua 10:33

Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish, but Joshua defeated him and his people until he had left him no survivors.

Joshua 16:10

But they did not drive out the Canaanites that were living in Gezer, so the Canaanites continued to live in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and became forced laborers.

Joshua 20:7

So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, 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 pastures and Beth-horon with its pastures—4 towns.

Judges 17:1

Now there was a man of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah.

Judges 9:1

Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem, to his mother’s brothers, and spoke to them and the whole clan of his mother’s father’s household saying,