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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)And from the territory of Benjamin they were given Gibeon, Geba, Alemeth, and Anathoth, each with its pasturelands. So thirteen towns were given to the descendants of Aaron.

Context of 1 Chronicles 6:60

58Hilen, Debir, 59Ashan, Juttah and Beth Shemesh, together with their pasturelands. 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. 61The rest of Kohath’s descendants were allotted ten towns from the clans of half the tribe of Manasseh. 62The descendants of Gershon, clan by clan, were allotted thirteen towns from the tribes of Issachar, Asher and Naphtali, and from the part of the tribe of Manasseh that is in Bashan.

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• And out of the tribeמַטֶּהmaţţeh maţţâh · tribeH4294
• of Benjaminבִּנְיָמִיןbinyâmîyn · BenjaminH1144
• Gebaגֶּ֫בַעgeba‛ · GebaH1387
• with her suburbsמִגְרָשׁmigrâsh migrâshâh · pastureH4054
• and Alemethעָלֶ֫מֶת‛âlemeth · AlemethH5964
• and Anathothעֲנָתוֹת‛ănâthôth · AnathothH6068
• All their citiesעִיר‛îyr ‛âr ‛âyar · cityH5892
• throughout their familiesמִשְׁפָּחָהmishpâchâh · familyH4940
• thirteenעָשָׂר‛âώâr · tenH6240
• thirteenשָׁלֹשׁshâlôsh shâlôsh shelôshâh shelôshâh · threeH7969

Cross-references for 1 Chronicles 6:60

• 1 Chronicles 8:6These were the descendants of Ehud, who were heads of families of those living in Geba and were deported to Manahath:
• Joshua 18:24Kephar Ammoni, Ophni and Geba—twelve towns and their villages.
• Joshua 21:17And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave them: Gibeon, Geba,
• 1 Samuel 13:3Jonathan attacked the Philistine outpost at Geba, and the Philistines heard about it. Then Saul had the trumpet blown throughout the land and said, “Let the Hebrews hear!”
• Joshua 21:18Anathoth and Almon, together with their pasturelands—four towns.
• 1 Chronicles 7:8The sons of Beker: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Beker.
• 1 Kings 2:26To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but I will not put you to death now, because you carried the ark of the Sovereign Lord before my father David and shared all my father’s hardships.”
• Isaiah 10:30Cry out, Daughter Gallim! Listen, Laishah! Poor Anathoth!
• Jeremiah 1:1The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.
• Jeremiah 11:23Not even a remnant will be left to them, because I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.”
• Jeremiah 37:12Jeremiah started to leave the city to go to the territory of Benjamin to get his share of the property among the people there.
• Joshua 10:2He and his people were very much alarmed at this, because Gibeon was an important city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were good fighters.
• Joshua 15:55Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,
• Joshua 21:16Ain, Juttah and Beth Shemesh, together with their pasturelands—nine towns from these two tribes.
• 1 Chronicles 14:16So David did as God commanded him, and they struck down the Philistine army, all the way from Gibeon 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

In the dictionaries

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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