1 Chronicles 6:57
And to the sons of Aaron they gave Hebron, the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, and Libnah with its outskirts, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its outskirts,
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1 Chronicles 6:57
And to the sons of Aaron they gave Hebron, the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, and Libnah with its outskirts, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its outskirts,
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Joshua 21:9
From the tribes of the children of Judah and the children of Simeon they gave these towns, listed here by name:
Joshua 21:10
These were for the children of Aaron among the families of the Kohathites, of the children of Levi: for they came first in the distribution.
Joshua 21:11
They gave them Kiriath-arba, the town of Arba, the father of Anak, (which is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah, with its grass-lands.
Joshua 21:12
But the open country round the town, and its unwalled places, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, as his property.
Joshua 21:13
And to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Libnah with its grass-lands;
Joshua 21:14
And Jattir with its grass-lands, and Eshtemoa with its grass-lands;
Joshua 21:15
And Holon with its grass-lands, and Debir with its grass-lands;
Joshua 21:16
And Ain, and Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, with their grass-lands; nine towns from those two tribes.
Joshua 21:17
And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave Gibeon and Geba with their grass-lands;
Joshua 21:18
Anathoth and Almon with their grass-lands, four towns.
Joshua 21:19
Thirteen towns with their grass-lands were given to the children of Aaron, the priests.
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Joshua 20:7
So they made selection of Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah.
Joshua 20:8
And on the east side of Jordan at Jericho, they made selection of Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
Joshua 20:9
These were the towns marked out for all the children of Israel and for the man from a strange country living among them, so that anyone causing the death of another in error, might go in flight there, and not be put to death by him who has the right of punishment for blood till he had come before the meeting of the people.
Joshua 14:14
So Hebron became the heritage of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, to this day, because with all his heart he was true to the Lord, the God of Israel.
Joshua 14:15
In earlier times the name of Hebron had been Kiriath-arba, named after Arba, the greatest of the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.
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Isaiah 37:8
So the Rab-shakeh went back, and when he got there the king of Assyria was making war against Libnah: for it had come to his ears that the king of Assyria had gone away from Lachish.
Joshua 10:29
Then Joshua and all Israel with him went on from Makkedah and came to Libnah, and made an attack on it;
Joshua 15:42
Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan;
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1 Chronicles 4:17
And the sons of Ezrah: Jether and Mered and Epher and Jalon; and these are the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, the wife of Mered. And she became the mother of Miriam and Shammai and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.
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