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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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appointed
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Heb. sanctified. Kedesh. Kedesh, called Cadesa, or Caidesa, by Josephus, was situated in Upper Galilee, twenty miles south-east from Tyre, according to Eusebius. The cities of refuge were distributed through the land at proper distances from each other, that they might be convenient to every part of the land; and it is said they were situated on eminences, that they might be easily seen at a distance; the roads leading to them being broad, even, and always kept in good repair. Kedesh and Hebron were at the two extremities of the land, the former being in Galilee, and the latter in Judah, both in mountainous districts, and Shechem was in mount Ephraim, nearly in the centre. Bezer was east of Jordan, in the eastern part of the plain opposite Jericho; Ramoth was about the midst of the country of the two tribes and a half, being about the middle of the mountains of Gilead; and Golan, the capital of Gaulonitis, was situated in the tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Bashan. As this institution is considered as a typ |
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Shechem
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Jos 21:21; Gen 33:18,19; 2Ch 10:1 |
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Kirjath-arba
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Jos 14:15; Jos 21:11,13 |
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mountain
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Luk 1:39 |
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Jos 21:21 |
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, |
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Gen 33:18 |
And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which [is] in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city. |
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Gen 33:19 |
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. |
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2Ch 10:1 |
And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king. |
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Jos 14:15 |
And the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjatharba; [which Arba was] a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war. |
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Jos 21:11 |
And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which [city is] Hebron, in the hill [country] of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it. |
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Jos 21:13 |
Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron with her suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with her suburbs, |
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Luk 1:39 |
And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda; |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Joshua 20:7," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Jos/20/7.html>.
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