Avram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Chevron, and built an altar there to the LORD.
Numbers 13:22 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) They went up by the South, and came to Chevron; and Achiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of `Anak, were there. (Now Chevron was built seven years before Tzo`an in Egypt.) Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And then went up into the South (the Negeb) and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai [probably three tribes of] the sons of Anak were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) American Standard Version (1901) And they went up by the South, and came unto Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) Common English Bible They went up into the arid southern plain and entered Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of the Anakites, lived. (Hebron was built seven years before Tanis in Egypt.) Catholic Public Domain Version And when they had ascended, they explored the land from the desert of Sin, all the way to Rehob, as one enters into Hamath. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And when they were gone up, they viewed the land, from the desert of Sin, unto Rohob, as you enter into Emath. |
Avram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Chevron, and built an altar there to the LORD.
Sarah died in Kiryat-Arba (the same is Chevron), in the land of Kena`an. Avraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
It happened after this, that David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Yehudah? the LORD said to him, Go up. David said, Where shall I go up? He said, To Chevron.
The time that David was king in Chevron over the house of Yehudah was seven years and six months.
and Yishbi-Benov, who was of the sons of the Rafa, the weight of whose spear was three hundred [shekels] of brass in weight, he being girded with a new [sword], thought to have slain David.
He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Tzo`an.
The princes of Tzo`an are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Par`oh has become stupid. How do you say to Par`oh, *I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?*
The princes of Tzo`an have become fools. The princes of Mof are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, who are the cornerstone of her tribes.
For their princes are at Tzo`an, and their ambassadors have come to Chanes.
Moshe sent them to spy out the land of Kena`an, and said to them, Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country:
However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, [and] very great: and moreover we saw the children of `Anak there.
There we saw the Nefilim, the sons of `Anak, who come of the Nefilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
a people great and tall, the sons of the `Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, Who can stand before the sons of `Anak?
Yehoshua went up from `Eglon, and all Yisra'el with him, to Chevron; and they fought against it:
To the children of Aharon the Kohen they gave Chevron with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Livna with its suburbs,
Yehudah went against the Kena`anim who lived in Chevron (now the name of Chevron before was Kiryat-Arba); and they struck Sheshai, and Achiman, and Talmai.
and to those who were in Chevron, and to all the places where David himself and his men used to stay.