YEHO 15:36 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=trivial Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

BrLXX καὶ Σακαρὶμ, καὶ Γάδηρα, καὶ αἱ ἐπαύλεις αὐτῆς· πόλεις δεκατέσσαρες, καὶ αἱ κῶμαι αὐτῶν.
(kai Sakarim, kai Gadaʸra, kai hai epauleis autaʸs; poleis dekatessares, kai hai kōmai autōn.)

BrTr And Sacarim and Gadera, and its villages; fourteen cities, and their villages;

ULT and Shaaraim and Adithaim and Gederah and Gederothaim: 14 cities and their villages;

UST Shaaraim, Adithaim, and Gederah. (People also call that city Gederothaim). These were the 14 cities in that area. The people of Judah lived in them and in their surrounding villages.

BSB Shaaraim, Adithaim, and Gederah (or Gederothaim)—fourteen cities, along with their villages.

OEB Shaaraim, Adithaim, Gederah, and Gederothaim, fourteen towns with their villages.

WEBBE Shaaraim, Adithaim and Gederah (or Gederothaim); fourteen cities with their villages.

NET Shaaraim, Adithaim, and Gederah (or Gederothaim) – a total of fourteen cities and their towns.

LSV and Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities and their villages.

FBV Shaaraim, Adithaim, Gederah, and Gederothaim—fourteen towns with their associated villages.

T4T Shaaraim, Adithaim, and Gederah (which is also named Gederothaim). Altogether there were 14 towns and their surrounding villages.

LEB Shaaraim, Adithaim, Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities and their villages.

BBE And Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen towns with their unwalled places.

Moff Shaaraim, Adithaim, Gederah, and Gederothaim, fourteen towns with their villages.

JPS and Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, with Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages.

ASV and Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages.

DRA And Saraim and Adithaim and Gedera and Gederothaim: fourteen cities, and their villages.

YLT and Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities and their villages.

Drby and Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim: fourteen cities and their hamlets.

RV and Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages.

SLT And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities and their enclosures:

Wbstr And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:

KJB-1769 And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:[fn]

15.36 and Gederothaim: or, or Gederothaim

KJB-1611 And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, [fn]and Gederothaim: fourteene cities with their villages.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

15:36 Or, or.

Bshps Saarem, Adithaim, Gederah, & Gederothaim: fourteene citie with their villages.
(Saarem, Adithaim, Gederah, and Gederothaim: fourteen city with their villages.)

Gnva And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim: fourteene cities with their villages.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Cvdl Saaraim, Adithaim, Gedera, Giderothim. These are fourtene cities & their vyllages.
(Saaraim, Adithaim, Gedera, Giderothim. These are fourteen cities and their villages.)

Wycl Adytaym, and Gedam, and Giderothaym; fourtene citees, and `the townes of tho;
(Adytaym, and Gedam, and Giderothaym; fourteen cities, and the towns of them;)

Luth Saaraim, Adithaim, Gedera, Gederothaim. Das sind vierzehn Städte und ihre Dörfer.
(Shaaraim, Adithaim, Gederah, Gederothaim. The are fourteen cities and their/her villages.)

ClVg et Saraim et Adithaim et Gedera et Gederothaim: urbes quatuordecim, et villæ earum.
(and Shaaraim and Adithaim and Gederah and Gederothaim: cities fourteen, and villages of_them.)

SOTN SIL Open Translator’s Notes:

Section 15:1–63 The tribe of Judah received their land

This section describes the boundaries of the tribe of Judah and lists the towns that are within those boundaries.

Here are some other possible section headings:

The boundaries of Judah

The land of the tribe of Judah

Paragraph 15:33–36

This paragraph is a list of the towns in the western foothills that were given to the tribe of Judah.

15:36a

Shaaraim, Adithaim, and Gederah (or Gederothaim)—

Shaaraim, Adithaim. Gederah, and Gederothaim.
Shaaraim Town and Adithaim Town and Gederah Town and Gederothaim Town.

Shaaraim, Adithaim, and Gederah (or Gederothaim): There are two ways to interpret the names Gederah and Gederothaim.

These names refer to two different places. For example:
Gederah and Gederothaim (GW) (GW, ESV, NASB, RSV, NABRE, NJPS, GNT, NLT, CEV, KJV)
These names refer to one place that has two different names. For example, the NIV says:
Gederah (or Gederothaim) (BSB, NIV, NET, NCV)

It is recommended that you follow interpretation (1). This agrees with the Hebrew text and is followed by most English versions.15:36 If Gederah and Gederothaim are two names for the same place, then the list in this paragraph comes to a total of fourteen towns.

15:36b

fourteen cities, along with their villages.

In all there were fourteen towns, and there were villages that surrounded them.
The number of these towns was fourteen (14), with the villages that were near them.

fourteen cities, along with their villages: The list of town names in verses 15:33–36 adds up to fifteen towns. It is not clear why the author says fourteen. It is possible that one of the towns was a small settlement that did not have villages attached to it. It is recommended that you translate this as fourteen.

Here are some other ways to translate this part of the verse:

In all there were fourteen towns together with the villages that surrounded them

The number of towns was fourteen, and there were villages that were near them

BMM BibleMapper.com Maps:

Tribal Allotments of the Promised Land

After the Israelites had conquered portions of the Promised Land and Joshua had grown old, the Lord directed him to divide the rest of the land among the tribes of Israel as their inheritance (Joshua 13-20). The eastern tribes had already been allotted their land under Moses’ leadership (Numbers 32), but they continued to help the other tribes drive out the Canaanites from land west of the Jordan River. The Lord also instructed the Israelites to designate several cities of refuge, where someone could flee for protection from an avenger if they accidentally killed someone (Numbers 35; Joshua 20).

Poster Map of the Tribe of Benjamin, circa 1200 B.C.

The descendants of Jacob’s son Benjamin occupied one of the smallest of the Israelite tribal allotments–measuring a mere 27 miles (43 km) wide by 14 miles (23 km) high–yet the significance of all the biblical events that took place within it is immense. Benjamin was the location of the Israelites’ very first battles to conquer to the Promised Land, beginning with Jericho and moving on to Ai (see “The Israelites Conquer Ai” map). After this, four Gibeonite towns–all located in western Benjaminite territory–deceived the Israelites into forming an alliance with them (see “The Conquest of Canaan: The Southern Campaign” map) in order to avoid being wiped out by them. Two judges (Ehud and Deborah; see “Ehud Rescues Israel” and “Deborah and Barak Defeat Sisera” maps) hailed from Benjamin as did the prophet Samuel (see “The Tribe of Benjamin” map). After the Ark of the Covenant was captured near Aphek and Shiloh was overrun by the Philistines, it appears that the altar was moved to the High Place of Gibeah by the time of Solomon (see “The Ark of the Covenant in the Promised Land” map). In the closing years of the judges, a tragic incident at Gibeah led to a war between Benjamin and the rest of the Israelites tribes (see “Israel Battles Benjamin” map). Saul, the first king of Israel, also hailed from Benjamin (see “Saul Searches for His Father’s Donkeys” map). While King David’s capital was at Hebron, a detachment of his forces attacked those of Saul’s son Ish-bosheth at Gibeon, leading them to flee to the Hill of Ammah (likely the same as Emmaus; see “The Battle at the Pool of Gibeon” map). David later established Jerusalem, technically located within Benjamin’s territory, as his new capital over all Israel (2 Samuel 5:6-9). The borders of Benjamin’s tribal allotment and the adjacent borders of its neighboring tribes are meticulously defined in Joshua 15:1-16:3 and Joshua 18:11-28, demonstrating the biblical writers’ acute awareness of Benjamin’s territory. Several stretches of these borders appear to follow established roads that existed during the settlement era.

Parallel YEHO 15:36

Section 15:1–63 The tribe of Judah received their land

Paragraph 15:33–36

15:36a

15:36b

Tribal Allotments of the Promised Land

Poster Map of the Tribe of Benjamin, circa 1200 B.C.