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11:28">◄</a> Nehemiah 11:29 <a href="../nehemiah/11-30.htm" title="Nehemiah 11:30">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">And at Enrimmon, and at Zareah, and at Jarmuth,</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/nehemiah/11.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/nehemiah/11.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/nehemiah/11.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/nehemiah/11.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/nehemiah/11.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/nehemiah/11.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/nehemiah/11.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a 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Even the professors of religion too commonly seek their own, and not the things of Christ. Few have had such attachment to holy things and holy places, as to renounce pleasure for their sake. Yet surely, our souls should delight to dwell where holy persons and opportunities of spiritual improvement most abound. If we have not this love to the city of our God, and to every thing that assists our communion with the Saviour, how shall we be willing to depart hence; to be absent from the body, that we may be present with the Lord? To the carnal-minded, the perfect holiness of the New Jerusalem would be still harder to bear than the holiness of God's church on earth. Let us seek first the favour of God, and his glory; let us study to be patient, contented, and useful in our several stations, and wait, with cheerful hope, for admission into the holy city of God.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/nehemiah/11.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>Many of the places mentioned in these verses are mentioned in <a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/15-27.htm">Joshua 15:27-39</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-21.htm">Joshua 18:21-28</a>. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/nehemiah/11.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>25. some of the children of Judah dwelt at Kirjath-arba—The whole region in which the villages here mentioned were situated had been completely devastated by the Chaldean invasion; and, therefore, it must be assumed, that these villages had been rebuilt before "the children dwelt in them."<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/nehemiah/11.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/nehemiah/11.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And for the villages, with their fields,.... The cities and villages in the country, an account of the inhabitants of them next follows: <p>some of the children of Judah dwelt at Kirjatharba, and in the villages thereof; the same with Hebron, <a href="/joshua/15-54.htm">Joshua 15:54</a> <p>and at Dibon; the same with Dimonah, <a href="/joshua/15-22.htm">Joshua 15:22</a> <p>and at Jekabzeel, and in the villages thereof; the same with Kabzeel, one of the uttermost cities of the tribe of Judah southward, <a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/15-21.htm">Joshua 15:21</a>, of which city was Benaiah, one of David's worthies, <a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/23-20.htm">2 Samuel 23:20</a>, from hence to the end of <a href="/nehemiah/11-30.htm">Nehemiah 11:30</a> mention is made of various cities and towns, in the tribe of Judah, inhabited by the men of it, which are to be met with in <a href="/joshua/15-1.htm">Joshua 15:1</a> excepting Jeshua and Mekonah, <a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/11-26.htm">Nehemiah 11:26</a>, of which we nowhere else read. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/nehemiah/11.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">And at Enrimmon, and at Zareah, and at Jarmuth,</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/nehemiah/11.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">29</span>. <span class="ital">En-rimmon</span>] In <a href="/joshua/15-32.htm" title="And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:">Joshua 15:32</a> we find this as two places, ‘Ain, and Rimmon;’ so also in <a href="/joshua/19-7.htm" title="Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:">Joshua 19:7</a>; <a href="/1_chronicles/4-32.htm" title="And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:">1 Chronicles 4:32</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">Zareah</span>] R.V. <span class="bld">Zorah.</span> Cf. <a href="/joshua/15-33.htm" title="And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,">Joshua 15:33</a>, ‘in the lowland … Zorah.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">Jarmuth</span>] Cf. <a href="/joshua/15-35.htm" title="Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,">Joshua 15:35</a>; cf. <a href="/joshua/3-5.htm" title="And Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.">Joshua 3:5</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/nehemiah/11.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 29.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">En-rimmon</span>, "the spring of Rimmon," is to be identified with the "Ain and Rimmon" of <a href="/joshua/15-32.htm">Joshua 15:32</a> - two neighbouring villages, which ultimately grew into one. <span class="cmt_word">Zareah</span> is no doubt the "Zoreah" of <a href="/joshua/15-33.htm">Joshua 15:33</a>, which was in the Shephelah, or low coast tract. <span class="cmt_word">Jarmuth</span> is the town of Piram, who warred with Joshua (<a href="/joshua/10-3.htm">Joshua 10:3-27</a>). Like Zareah, it lay in the low coast tract (<a href="/joshua/15-35.htm">Joshua 15:35</a>). Nehemiah 11:29<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/nehemiah/11.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>The inhabitants of the towns of Judah and Benjamin. - The heads who, with their houses, inhabited country districts are here no longer enumerated, but only the towns, with their adjacent neighbourhoods, which were inhabited by Jews and Benjamites; and even these are but summarily mentioned.<p><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/11-25.htm">Nehemiah 11:25-30</a><p>The districts inhabited by the children of Judah. "And with respect to the towns in their fields, there dwelt of the sons of Judah in Kirjath-arba and its daughters," etc. The use of אל as an introductory or emphatic particle is peculiar to this passage, ל ,egassap being elsewhere customary in this sense; comp. Ew. 310, a. אל denotes a respect to something. חצרים, properly enclosures, signifies, according to <a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-31.htm">Leviticus 25:31</a>, villages, towns, boroughs, without walls. שׂדות, fields, field boundaries. בּנותיה, the villages and estates belonging to a town; as frequently in the lists of towns in the book of Joshua. Kirjath-arba is Hebron, <a href="/genesis/23-2.htm">Genesis 23:2</a>. Jekabzeel, like Kabzeel, <a href="/joshua/15-21.htm">Joshua 15:21</a>. חצריה, its enclosed places, the estates belonging to a town, as in <a href="/joshua/15-45.htm">Joshua 15:45</a>. Jeshua, mentioned only here, and unknown. Moladah and Beth-phelet, <a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/15-26.htm">Joshua 15:26-27</a>. Hazar-shual, i.e., Fox-court, probably to be sought for in the ruins of Thaly; see rem. on <a href="/joshua/15-28.htm">Joshua 15:28</a>. Beersheba, now Bir es Seba; see rem. on <a href="/genesis/21-31.htm">Genesis 21:31</a>. Ziklag, at the ancient Asluj, see <a href="/joshua/15-31.htm">Joshua 15:31</a>. Mekonah, mentioned only here, and unknown. En-rimmon; see rem. on <a href="/1_chronicles/4-32.htm">1 Chronicles 4:32</a>. Zareah, Jarmuth, Zanoah, and Adullam in the plains (see <a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/15-33.htm">Joshua 15:33-35</a>), where were also Lachish and Azekah; see on <a href="/2_chronicles/11-9.htm">2 Chronicles 11:9</a>. - In <a href="/nehemiah/11-30.htm">Nehemiah 11:30</a> the whole region then inhabited by Jews is comprised in the words: "And they dwelt from Beer-sheba (the south-western boundary of Canaan) to the valley of Hinnom, in Jerusalem," through which ran the boundaries of the tribes of Benjamin and Judah (<a href="/joshua/15-8.htm">Joshua 15:8</a>).<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/nehemiah/11-29.htm">Nehemiah 11:29 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/nehemiah/11-29.htm">Nehemiah 11:29 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/nehemiah/11-29.htm">Nehemiah 11:29 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/nehemiah/11-29.htm">Nehemiah 11:29 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/nehemiah/11-29.htm">Nehemiah 11:29 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/nehemiah/11-29.htm">Nehemiah 11:29 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/nehemiah/11-29.htm">Nehemiah 11:29 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/nehemiah/11-29.htm">Nehemiah 11:29 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/nehemiah/11-29.htm">Nehemiah 11:29 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/nehemiah/11-29.htm">Nehemiah 11:29 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/nehemiah/11-29.htm">Nehemiah 11:29 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/nehemiah/11-29.htm">Nehemiah 11:29 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/nehemiah/11-29.htm">Nehemiah 11:29 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../nehemiah/11-28.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Nehemiah 11:28"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Nehemiah 11:28" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../nehemiah/11-30.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Nehemiah 11:30"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Nehemiah 11:30" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>