Bible Strands
1 Chronicles 6:81
Heshbon, and Jazer, together with their pasturelands.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The Chronicler continues a territorial inventory of Levitical cities allocated from the tribe of Gad, immediately following the previous entry for Ramoth in Gilead and Mahanaim.
The words — חֶשְׁבּוֹן (Heshbon) names the fortified city, while מִגְרָשֶׁיהָ (migrašehā) literally means "its open lands" or pasturelands. יַעְזֵיר (Jazer) identifies the adjacent settlement paired with it.
The thread — These locations reappear in Joshua 21:39 as part of the Gadite Levitical allotment and in Numbers 21:25–32 during Israel’s campaign against the Amorite cities.
Why it lands — The verse records the exact geographic boundaries granted to the priestly tribe, requiring the reader to track how conquest accounts and priestly distribution lists align in the biblical record.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs.
Cross-references
- Joshua 21:39 Heshbon, and Jazer—four cities in all, together with their pasturelands.
- Numbers 21:25 Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages.
- Numbers 21:32 After Moses had sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.
- Numbers 32:1 Now the Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, and they saw that the region was suitable for livestock.
- Numbers 32:3 “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
- Numbers 32:37 The Reubenites built up Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,
- Deuteronomy 2:24 “Arise, set out, and cross the Arnon Valley. See, I have delivered into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle.
- Joshua 13:25 The territory of Jazer, all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites as far as Aroer, near Rabbah;
- Nehemiah 9:22 You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.
- Song of Solomon 7:4 Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, facing toward Damascus.