Debir

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• 1CH 6:54–60, engwebp

  ⁵⁴Now these are their dwelling places according to their encampments in their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the first lot),

  ⁵⁵to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and its pasture lands around it;

  ⁵⁶but the fields of the city and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

  ⁵⁷To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge, Hebron, Libnah also with its pasture lands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,

  ⁵⁸Hilen with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,

  ⁵⁹Ashan with its pasture lands, and Beth Shemesh with its pasture lands;

  ⁶⁰and out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its pasture lands, Allemeth with its pasture lands, and Anathoth with its pasture lands. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.

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• JDG 1:11, engwebp

  ¹¹From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (The name of Debir before that was Kiriath Sepher.)

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• JDG 1:12–13, engwebp

  ¹²Caleb said, “I will give Achsah my daughter as wife to the man who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it.”

  ¹³Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it, so he gave him Achsah his daughter as his wife.

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• JOS 10:38–39, engwebp

  ³⁸Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and fought against it.

  ³⁹He took it, with its king and all its cities. They struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. As he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to its king; as he had done also to Libnah, and to its king.

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• JOS 11:21–22, engwebp

  ²¹Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.

  ²²There were none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain.

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• JOS 12:7–24, engwebp

  ⁷These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir. Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;

  ⁸in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

  ⁹the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;

  ¹⁰the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;

  ¹¹the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;

  ¹²the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;

  ¹³the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;

  ¹⁴the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;

  ¹⁵the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

  ¹⁶the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;

  ¹⁷the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;

  ¹⁸the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lassharon, one;

  ¹⁹the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;

  ²⁰the king of Shimron Meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;

  ²¹the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;

  ²²the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;

  ²³the king of Dor in the height of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;

  ²⁴the king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty-one.

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• JOS 15:15–17, engwebp

  ¹⁵He went up against the inhabitants of Debir: now the name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher.

  ¹⁶Caleb said, “He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, to him I will give Achsah my daughter as wife.”

  ¹⁷Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.

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• JOS 15:48–51, engwebp

  ⁴⁸In the hill country, Shamir, Jattir, Socoh,

  ⁴⁹Dannah, Kiriath Sannah (which is Debir),

  ⁵⁰Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,

  ⁵¹Goshen, Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.

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• JOS 21:9–19, engwebp

  ⁹They gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are mentioned by name:

  ¹⁰and they were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot.

  ¹¹They gave them Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (also called Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its pasture lands around it.

  ¹²But they gave the fields of the city and its villages to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

  ¹³To the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, Libnah with its pasture lands,

  ¹⁴Jattir with its pasture lands, Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,

  ¹⁵Holon with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,

  ¹⁶Ain with its pasture lands, Juttah with its pasture lands, and Beth Shemesh with its pasture lands: nine cities out of those two tribes.

  ¹⁷Out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its pasture lands, Geba with its pasture lands,

  ¹⁸Anathoth with its pasture lands, and Almon with its pasture lands: four cities.

  ¹⁹All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.

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