1 Chronicles 6:60

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.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
tribe	וּמִמַּטֵּ֣ה u.mi.ma.Teh	H4294	a branch (as extending) · conjunction + preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
Benjamin	בִנְיָמִ֗ן vin.ya.Min	H1144	Binjamin · proper noun, a man's name
Geba	גֶּ֤בַע Ge.va'	H1387	Geba · proper noun, a place name
suburbs	מִגְרָשֶׁיהָ mig.ra.Shei.ha	H4054	a suburb (i.e. open country whither flocks are driven f… · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
Alemeth	עָלֶ֣מֶת 'a.Le.met	H5964	Alemeth · proper noun, a place name
suburbs	מִגְרָשֶׁ֙יהָ֙ mig.ra.Shei.ha	H4054	a suburb (i.e. open country whither flocks are driven f… · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
Anathoth	עֲנָת֖וֹת a.na.Tot	H6068	Anathoth · proper noun, a place name
suburbs	מִגְרָשֶׁ֔יהָ mig.ra.Shei.ha	H4054	a suburb (i.e. open country whither flocks are driven f… · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
cities	עָרֵיהֶ֛ם 'a.rei.Hem	H5892	a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the wi… · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
families	בְּמִשְׁפְּחוֹתֵיהֶֽם be.mish.pe.cho.tei.Hem	H4940	a family · preposition + noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
thirteen	שְׁלֹשׁ she.losh-	H7969	three · noun, common both genders singular construct
cities	עִ֖יר 'ir	H5892	a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the wi… · noun, common feminine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Jeremiah 1:1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
Joshua 18:24 And Chephar-haammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:
Joshua 21:17-18 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,
1 Samuel 13:3 And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout a…
1 Kings 2:26 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at thi…
1 Chronicles 8:6 And these are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Geba, and they removed them to Manahath:
Isaiah 10:30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
Jeremiah 11:23 And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 6:54–end

We have here an account of the Levites' cities. They are here called their castles (Ch1 6:54), not only because walled and fortified, and well guarded by the country (for it is the interest of every nation to protect its ministers), but because they and their possessions were, in a particular manner, the care of the divine providence: as God was their portion, so God was their protection; and a cottage will be a castle to those that abide under the shadow of the Almighty. This account is much the same with that which we had, Jos. 21. We need not be critical in comparing them (what good will it do us?) nor will it do any hurt to the credit of the holy scripture if the names of some of the pla…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Chronicles 6:60

thirteen cities--No more than eleven are named here; but two additional ones are mentioned (Jos 21:16-17), which makes up the thirteen.

Adam Clarke on 1 Chronicles 6:60

All their cities - were thirteen - But there are only eleven reckoned here, Gibeon and Juttah being omitted, and the names of some of the others changed. None of the versions give the full number of names, although they all give the whole sum thirteen.

John Gill on 1 Chronicles 6:54

Now these are their dwelling places,.... The dwelling places of the priests and Levites, assigned and given to them in the several tribes of Israel; and the account of them agrees with that in Joshua 21:1 with some few variations of names of places, which have been there observed: see the notes there; only in 1 Chronicles 6:57 two cities are omitted, Juttah and Gibeon, through want of care in transcribing, since they are said to be "thirteen", as they should be, whereas eleven only are mentioned. The Jews say (h), the cities of the suburbs (those here mentioned) ceased from the time the first temple was destroyed; and yet Ezra, who lived after the captivity, and the building the second templ…

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Dictionary and topics

Alemeth — Covering. (1.) One of the nine sons of Becher, the son of Benjamin (1 Chr. 7:8). (2.) One of the sons of Jehoadah, or Jarah, son of Ahaz (1 Chr. 8:36). (3.) A sacerdotal city of Benjamin (1 Chr.…
Almon — Hidden, one of the sacerdotal cities of Benjamin (Josh. 21:18), called also Alemeth (1 Chr. 6:60).
Anathoth — The name of one of the cities of refuge, in the tribe of Benjamin (Josh. 21:18). The Jews, as a rule, did not change the names of the towns they found in Palestine; hence this town may be regarded as…
Elkanah, Or Elkonah — (God-provided).
Geba — The hill, (2 Sam. 5:25 [1 Chr. 14:16, “Gibeon”]; 2 Kings 23:8; Neh. 11:31), a Levitical city of Benjamin (1 Kings 15:22; 1 Sam. 13:16; 14:5, wrongly “Gibeah” in the A.V.), on the north border of…
Tabor — A height. (1.) Now Jebel et-Tur, a cone-like prominent mountain, 11 miles west of the Sea of Galilee. It is about 1,843 feet high. The view from the summit of it is said to be singularly extensive…
Alemeth · 1. A Leviti — 1. A Leviti
Almon · General references — General references
Anathoth · 1. City of refuge in Benjamin — 1. City of refuge in Benjamin
Geba · A city of the tribe of Benjamin, assigned to the — A city of the tribe of Benjamin, assigned to the
Priests · Thirteen of the Levitical cities given to, for residence — Thirteen of the Levitical cities given to, for residence

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

1 Chronicles 6:60

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 6:54–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Chronicles 6:60

Adam Clarke on 1 Chronicles 6:60

John Gill on 1 Chronicles 6:54

Dictionary and topics

1 Chronicles 6:60

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 6:54–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Chronicles 6:60

Adam Clarke on 1 Chronicles 6:60

John Gill on 1 Chronicles 6:54

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on 1 Chronicles 6:44–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 1 Chronicles 6:54-81

Rashi on 1 Chronicles 6:56