THEOSISJoshua 21:16Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And Ain, and Jeta, and Bethsames, with their suburbs: nine cities out of the two tribes, as hath been said.
וְאֶת־עַ֣יִן וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֗הָ וְאֶת־יֻטָּה֙ וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָ אֶת־בֵּ֥ית שֶׁ֖מֶשׁ וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֑הָ עָרִ֣ים תֵּ֔שַׁע מֵאֵ֕ת שְׁנֵ֥י הַשְּׁבָטִ֖ים הָאֵֽלֶּה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Josh 15:10And it compasseth from Baala westward unto mount Seir: and passeth by the side of mount Jarim to the north into Cheslon: and goeth down into Bethsames, and passeth into Thamna.
- Josh 15:55Maon and Carmel and Ziph and Jota,
- 1 Chr 6:59Asan also, and Bethsames, with their suburbs.
- 1 Sam 6:12And the kine took the straight way, that leadeth to Bethsames, and they went along the way, lowing as they went: and turned not aside neither to the right hand nor to the left: and the lords of the Philistines followed them as far as the borders of Bethsames.
- Josh 15:42Labana and Ether and Asan,
- 1 Sam 6:9And you shall look: and if it go up by the way of his own coasts, towards Bethsames, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, we shall know that it is not his hand hath touched us, but it hath happened by chance.