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Joshua 21:21

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For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,

For they gave {H5414} them Shechem {H7927} with her suburbs {H4054} in mount {H2022} Ephraim {H669}, to be a city {H5892} of refuge {H4733} for the slayer {H7523}; and Gezer {H1507} with her suburbs {H4054},

they gave them: Sh'khem with its surrounding open land, in the hills of Efrayim, the city of refuge for the killer; Gezer with its surrounding open land;

From the tribe of Ephraim they were given Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the manslayer), Gezer,

And they gave them Shechem with its suburbs in the hill-country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Gezer with its suburbs,

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Cross-References

  • Joshua 20:7 (5 votes)

    ¶ And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which [is] Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.

  • 1 Kings 9:15 (2 votes)

    ¶ And this [is] the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

  • 1 Kings 9:17 (2 votes)

    And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,

  • Genesis 33:19 (2 votes)

    And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.

  • Joshua 16:10 (2 votes)

    And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute.

  • Judges 9:1 (2 votes)

    ¶ And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,

  • 1 Kings 12:1 (2 votes)

    ¶ And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.