"And Ashan with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs: {Ashan: or, Ain}" — 1 Chronicles 6:59

1 Chronicles 6:59 · KJV

“And Ashan with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs: {Ashan: or, Ain}”

— 1 Chronicles 6:59

And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs, {Hilen: or, Holon}

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. {Alemeth: or, Almon}

1 Chronicles 6 — Context

And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, {namely}, Hebron, {the city} of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,

And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs, {Hilen: or, Holon}

And Ashan with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs: {Ashan: or, Ain}

And unto the sons of Kohath, {which were} left of the family of that tribe, {were cities given} out of the half tribe, {namely, out of} the half {tribe} of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities.

Cross References

Joshua 21:16

And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, {and} Bethshemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes. {Ain: also called, Ashan}

Joshua 15:42

Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,

Jeremiah 43:13

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. {images: Heb. statues, or, standing images} {Bethshemesh: or, The house of the sun}

1 Chronicles 4:32

And their villages {were}, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities: {Etam: or, Ether}

1 Samuel 6:12-19

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.

Joshua 15:10

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:

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