Joshua - 21:39

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39 Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs; four cities in all.

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Explanation and meaning of Joshua 21:39.

Differing Translations

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and Hesebon and Jaser, four cities with their suburbs.
Heshbon and its suburbs, Jaazer and its suburbs: four cities in all.
Heshbon and its suburbs, Jazer and its suburbs, in all four cities.
Heshbon and Jazer with their grass-lands, four towns.
Heshbon with the open land about it, Jazer with the open land about it; four cities in all.
and Heshbon and Jazer, four cities with their suburbs.
Hesbon et suburbana ejus: Jaazer et suburbana ejus: urbes quatuor.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Heshbon with her suburbs,.... Which was formerly the royal city of Sihon king of the Amorites, and was first given to and rebuilt by the Reubenites, but was upon the border of the tribe of Gad; and appears from hence to have been one of their cities, Numbers 21:26,
Jazer with her suburbs; sometimes called Jaazer, another city in the same country, and near Heshbon; see Numbers 21:32,
four cities in all: which were Ramothgilead, Mahanaim, Heshbon, and Jazer.

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