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2 Chronicles 11:10
Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, the fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The verse functions as a royal inventory within Rehoboam’s administrative consolidation, listing fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin immediately after the kingdom’s political division.
The words — חֶבְר֔וֹן (chev.Ron) identifies Hebron, a site the text explicitly anchors in the tribal territories of Judah and Benjamin.
The thread — The location appears in Genesis 23:2 as the burial ground of Sarah, Numbers 13:22 as a settlement of the Anakim, and Joshua 14:14 as the inheritance granted to Caleb.
Why it lands — It requires the reader to track how ancestral land names persist through political fragmentation and are actively repurposed for military administration.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.
Cross-references
- Genesis 23:2 She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her.
- Numbers 13:22 They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.
- Joshua 14:14 Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite as an inheritance to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.
- Joshua 15:33 These were in the foothills: Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
- Joshua 19:41 The territory of their inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,
- Joshua 20:7 So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
- 2 Samuel 2:11 And the length of time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.