1 Chronicles 6:59

And Ashan with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs:

And Ashan {H6228} with her suburbs {H4054}, and Bethshemesh {H1053} with her suburbs {H4054}:

'Ashan with its surrounding open land, Beit-Shemesh with its surrounding open land;

Ashan, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, together with their pasturelands.

and Ashan with its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with its suburbs;

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Joshua 21:16 (4 votes)

    And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, [and] Bethshemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.

  • Joshua 15:42 (3 votes)

    Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,

  • Jeremiah 43:13 (2 votes)

    He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that [is] in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.

  • Joshua 15:10 (2 votes)

    And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which [is] Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah:

  • 1 Samuel 6:12 (2 votes)

    And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, [and] went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside [to] the right hand or [to] the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.

  • 1 Samuel 6:19 (2 votes)

    ¶ And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten [many] of the people with a great slaughter.

  • 1 Chronicles 4:32 (2 votes)

    And their villages [were], Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities: