1 Chronicles 6:60

1 Chronicles 6:60 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And out of the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with her suburbs, and Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.
• New International Version (NIV)And from the tribe of Benjamin they were given Gibeon, Geba, Alemeth and Anathoth, together with their pasturelands. The total number of towns distributed among the Kohathite clans came to thirteen.
• English Standard Version (ESV)and from the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon, Geba with its pasturelands, Alemeth with its pasturelands, and Anathoth with its pasturelands. All their cities throughout their clans were thirteen.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its common-lands, Alemeth with its common-lands, and Anathoth with its common-lands. All their cities among their families were thirteen.

Context of 1 Chronicles 6:60

58and Hilen and its suburbs, Debir and its suburbs, 59and Ashan and its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh and its suburbs; and, out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba and its suburbs, and Allemeth and its suburbs, and Anathoth and its suburbs: all their cities, thirteen cities, according to their families. 61And to the children of Kohath that remained [were given] by lot out of the families of the tribe [of Ephraim and of the tribe of Dan and] of the half tribe, half Manasseh, ten cities. 62And to the children of Gershom according to their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.

1 Chronicles 6:60 word by word

וּמִמַּטֵּ֣ה בִנְיָמִ֗ן אֶת־גִּבְעוֹן וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁיהָ אֶת־גֶּ֤בַע וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֙יהָ֙ וְאֶת־עָלֶ֣מֶת וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֔יהָ וְאֶת־עֲנָת֖וֹת וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֑יהָ כָּל־עָרֵיהֶ֛ם שְׁלֹשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵ֥ה עִ֖יר בְּמִשְׁפְּחוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃ סRead the interlinear

Cross-references for 1 Chronicles 6:60

• 1 Chronicles 8:6— And these are the sons of Ehud (these were the chief fathers of the inhabitants of Geba; and they carried them away to Manahath;
• Joshua 18:24and Chephar-haammonai, and Ophni, and Geba: twelve cities and their hamlets;
• Joshua 21:17and out of the tribe of Benjamin: Gibeon and its suburbs, Geba and its suburbs,
• 1 Samuel 13:3And Jonathan smote the outpost of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard [of it]. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
• Joshua 21:18Anathoth and its suburbs, and Almon and its suburbs; four cities.
• 1 Chronicles 7:8And the sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth; all these were the sons of Becher.
• 1 Kings 2:26And the king said to Abiathar the priest, Go to Anathoth, to thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death; but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou didst bear the ark of Adonai Jehovah before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
• Isaiah 10:30Lift up thy voice, daughter of Gallim! Hearken, O Laish! — Poor Anathoth!
• Jeremiah 1:1The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkijah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
• Jeremiah 11:23and there shall be no remnant of them; for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, in the year of their visitation.
• Jeremiah 37:12that Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to have his portion there among the people.
• Joshua 10:2that they feared greatly; for Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.
• Joshua 15:55Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Jutah,
• Joshua 21:16and Ain and its suburbs, and Juttah and its suburbs, [and] Beth-shemesh and its suburbs: nine cities out of those two tribes;
• 1 Chronicles 14:16And David did as God commanded him; and they smote the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.

Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 6:60

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 60All their cities - were thirteen - But there are only eleven reckoned here, Gibeon and Juttah being omitted, and the names of some of the others changed. None of the versions give the full number of names, although they all give the whole sum thirteen.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 56-81Verses 56-81 The writer evidently had before him 1 Chronicles 6:58, 1 Chronicles 6:60, 1 Chronicles 6:72, etc.); in a few he substituted for the old an entirely new name, the modern apellation, probably, of the ancient site 1 Chronicles 6:70, 1 Chronicles 6:77. At one time, it would seem, his intention was to give the cities of the priests only, and to content himself with stating the mere number of the rest. His account of the matter was then brought to…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 54-81The list of Levitical cities comes from Joshua 21. It follows a geographical order, with families grouped by specific areas. This list shows Israel's unity and completeness. It presents the Levites as settled in the land just like the other tribes.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 6060. thirteen cities--No more than eleven are named here; but two additional ones are mentioned (Jos 21:16, 17), which makes up the thirteen.Read the comment

Topics related to 1 Chronicles 6:60

• Alemeth
• Almon
• Anathoth
• Geba
• Levites
• Priest

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• Chronology of the Old Testament
• Geba
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Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary