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Matthew 4:15

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, along the road by the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles.

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Nevertheless, the gloom of the distressed land will not be like that of the former times when he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali.  But in the future he will bring honour to the way of the sea, to the land east of the Jordan, and to Galilee of the nations.


From the tribe of Naphtali they gave: Kedesh in Galilee, the city of refuge for the one who commits manslaughter, with its pasturelands, Hammoth-dor with its pasturelands, and Kartan with its pasturelands #– #three cities.


In the days of King Pekah of Israel, King Tiglath-pileser  of Assyria came and captured Ijon,  Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee #– #all the land of Naphtali   #– #and deported the people to Assyria.


King Hiram of Tyre  having supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold  for his every wish   #– #King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.


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.


He left Nazareth and went to live in Capernaum  by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali.


This was to fulfil what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:


Large crowds followed him from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan.


Then beginning with Moses  and all the Prophets,  he interpreted for them the things concerning himself in all the Scriptures.





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