Beth Gilgal
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Named at Nehemiah 12:29 among the places from which the sons of the singers gathered: “The sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain around Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites; also from Beth Gilgal and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built themselves villages around Jerusalem.” The Korean Revised Version reads 노래하는 자들이 (the singers) where WEB reads “The sons of the singers” (12:28).
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- NEH 12:27–30, engwebp
27At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks and with singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and with harps.
28The sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain around Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites;
29also from Beth Gilgal and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built themselves villages around Jerusalem.
30The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.
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Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Beth-gilgal” by name and 1 shared verse. The coordinate of its leading identification, another name for Gilgal 1 (confidence 478 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event.
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- another name for Gilgal 1
OpenBible.info confidence 478 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.88188, 35.45997
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Beth-gilgal” (CC BY 4.0)
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also from Beth Gilgal and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built themselves villages around Jerusalem.
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Current wording: Named at Nehemiah 12:29 among the places from which the sons of the singers gathered: “The sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain around Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites; also from Beth Gilgal and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built themselves villages around Jerusalem.” The Korean Revised Version reads 노래하는 자들이 (the singers) where WEB reads “The sons of the singers” (12:28).
Cited evidence: NEH 12:27–30, engwebp
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