54 And Humtah, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages:

Other Translations of Joshua 15:54

New International Version

54 Humtah, Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) and Zior-nine towns and their villages.

English Standard Version

54 Humtah, Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior: nine cities with their villages.

The Message

54 Humtah, Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior - nine towns and their villages.

New King James Version

54 Humtah, Kirjath Arba (which is Hebron), and Zior: nine cities with their villages;

New Living Translation

54 Humtah, Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior-nine towns with their surrounding villages.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Joshua 15:54

Commentary on Joshua 15:20-63

(Read Joshua 15:20-63)

Here is a list of the cities of Judah. But we do not here find Bethlehem, afterwards the city of David, and ennobled by the birth of our Lord Jesus in it. That city, which, at the best, was but little among the thousands of Judah, Micah 5:2, except that it was thus honoured, was now so little as not to be accounted one of the cities.