Lexicon :: Strong's G1886 - epaulis

These are Ishmael’s sons, and these are their names by their settlements and encampments: twelve leaders[fn] of their clans.[fn]

“the frogs will go away from you, your houses, your officials, and your people. The frogs will remain only in the Nile.”

The LORD did as Moses had said: the frogs in the houses, courtyards, and fields died.

“Tell the Israelites to turn back and camp in front of Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea; you must camp in front of Baal-zephon, facing it by the sea.

The Egyptians ​— ​all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, his horsemen,[fn] and his army ​— ​chased after them and caught up with them as they camped by the sea beside Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.

“But houses in settlements that have no walls around them are to be classified as open fields. The right to redeem such houses stays in effect, and they are to be released at the Jubilee.

So Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.[fn]

Then they burned all the cities where the Midianites lived, as well as all their encampments,

Then they approached him and said, “We want to build sheep pens here for our livestock and cities for our dependents.

“Build cities for your dependents and pens for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”

Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and built sheep pens.

Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages, which he renamed Jair’s Villages.[fn]

“Your border will turn south of the Scorpions’ Ascent,[fn] proceed to Zin, and end south of Kadesh-barnea. It will go to Hazar-addar and proceed to Azmon.

The border of the Reubenites was the Jordan and its plain. This was the inheritance of the Reubenites by their clans, with the cities and their settlements.

This was the inheritance of the Gadites by their clans, with the cities and their settlements.

Hazar-shual, Beer-sheba, Biziothiah,

Shaaraim, Adithaim, Gederah, and Gederothaim ​— ​fourteen cities, with their settlements;

Ekron, with its surrounding villages and settlements;

Ashdod, with its surrounding villages and settlements; Gaza, with its surrounding villages and settlements, to the Brook of Egypt and the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea.

Humtah, Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior ​— ​nine cities, with their settlements;

Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah ​— ​two cities, with their settlements.

He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys. They had thirty towns[fn] in Gilead, which are still called Jair’s Villages[fn] today.

Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan ​— ​five cities,

As for the farming settlements with their fields:

Some of Judah’s descendants lived in Kiriath-arba

and Dibon and their surrounding villages, and Jekabzeel and its settlements;

Zanoah and Adullam with their settlements;

in Lachish with its fields and Azekah and its surrounding villages.

So they settled from Beer-sheba to Hinnom Valley.

The singers gathered from the region around Jerusalem, from the settlements of the Netophathites,

Make their fortification desolate;

may no one live in their tents.

The LORD’s curse is on the household of the wicked,

but he blesses the home of the righteous;

Her palaces will be overgrown with thorns;

her fortified cities, with thistles and briers.

She will become a dwelling for jackals,

an abode[fn] for ostriches.

the parched ground will become a pool,

and the thirsty land, springs.

In the haunt of jackals, in their lairs,

there will be grass, reeds, and papyrus.

Let the desert and its cities shout,

the settlements where Kedar dwells cry aloud.

Let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy;

let them cry out from the mountaintops.

For those who gather grain will eat it

and praise the LORD,

and those who harvest the grapes will drink the wine

in my holy courts.

“Sharon will be a pasture for flocks,

and the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down,

for my people who have sought me.