'Villages' in the Bible

These are Ishmael’s sons, and these are their names by their villages and encampments: 12 leaders of their clans.

But houses in villages 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.

Israel took all the cities and lived in all these Amorite cities, including Heshbon and all its villages.

After Moses sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.

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

Nobah went and captured Kenath with its villages and called it Nobah after his own name.

The Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, and settled in their place.

All these were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a large number of rural villages.

Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took over the entire region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He called Bashan by his own name, Jair’s Villages, as it is today.

They captured it and struck down its king, all its villages, and everyone in it with the sword. He left no survivors, just as he had done at Eglon. He completely destroyed Hebron and everyone in it.

He captured it—its king and all its villages. They struck them down with the sword and completely destroyed everyone in it, leaving no survivors. He treated Debir and its king as he had treated Hebron and as he had treated Libnah and its king.

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 villages.

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

Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon—29 cities in all, with their villages.

Shaaraim, Adithaim, Gederah, and Gederothaim—14 cities, with their villages;

Gederoth, Beth-dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah—16 cities, with their villages;

Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah—nine cities, with their villages;

Ekron, with its towns and villages;

from Ekron to the sea, all the cities near Ashdod, with their villages;

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

Goshen, Holon, and Giloh—11 cities, with their villages;

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

Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah—10 cities, with their villages;

Maarath, Beth-anoth, and Eltekon—six cities, with their villages;

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

Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En-gedi—six cities, with their villages.

the cities set apart for the descendants of Ephraim within the inheritance of the descendants of Manasseh—all these cities with their villages.

Chephar-ammoni, Ophni, and Geba—12 cities, with their villages;

Zela, Haeleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath—14 cities, with their villages.This was the inheritance for Benjamin’s descendants by their clans.

Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen—13 cities, with their villages;

Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan—four cities, with their villages;

and all the villages surrounding these cities as far as Baalath-beer (Ramah of the south).This was the inheritance of the tribe of Simeon’s descendants by their clans.

along with Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem—12 cities, with their villages.

This was the inheritance of Zebulun’s descendants by their clans, these cities, with their villages.

The border reached Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth-shemesh, and ended at the Jordan—16 cities, with their villages.

This was the inheritance of the tribe of Issachar’s descendants by their clans, the cities, with their villages.

Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob—22 cities, with their villages.

This was the inheritance of the tribe of Asher’s descendants by their clans, these cities with their villages.

Iron, Migdal-el, Horem, Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh—19 cities, with their villages.

This was the inheritance of the tribe of Naphtali’s descendants by their clans, the cities with their villages.

This was the inheritance of the Danite tribe by its clans, these cities with their villages.

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

At that time Manasseh failed to take possession of Beth-shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the residents of Dor and its villages, or the residents of Ibleam and its villages, or the residents of Megiddo and its villages; the Canaanites refused to leave this land.

Villages were deserted,they were deserted in Israel,until I, Deborah, arose,a mother in Israel.

He had 30 sons who rode on 30 donkeys. They had 30 towns in Gilead, which are called Jair’s Villages to this day.

While Israel lived 300 years in Heshbon and its villages, in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, why didn’t you take them back at that time?

The number of gold mice also corresponded to the number of Philistine cities of the five rulers, the fortified cities and the outlying villages. The large rock on which the ark of the Lord was placed is in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh to this day.

Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (he had the villages of Jair son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and he had the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, 60 great cities with walls and bronze bars);

But Geshur and Aram captured Jair’s Villages along with Kenath and its villages—60 towns. All these were the sons of Machir father of Gilead.

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

and all their surrounding villages as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they kept a genealogical record for themselves.

but the fields and villages around the city were given to Caleb son of Jephunneh.

Their holdings and settlements were Bethel and its villages; Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages as far as Ayyah and its villages,

and along the borders of the sons of Manasseh, Beth-shean and its villages, Taanach and its villages, Megiddo and its villages, and Dor and its villages. The sons of Joseph son of Israel lived in these towns.

Elpaal’s sons: Eber, Misham, and Shemed who built Ono and Lod and its villages,

Obadiah son of Shemaiah, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun;and Berechiah son of Asa, son of Elkanah who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.

The total number of those chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds was 212. They were registered by genealogy in their villages. David and Samuel the seer had appointed them to their trusted positions.

Their relatives came from their villages at fixed times to be with them seven days,

After this, David defeated the Philistines, subdued them, and took Gath and its villages from Philistine control.

Azmaveth son of Adiel was in charge of the king’s storehouses.Jonathan son of Uzziah was in charge of the storehouses in the country, in the cities, in the villages, and in the fortresses.

Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured some cities from him: Bethel and its villages, Jeshanah and its villages, and Ephron and its villages.

The Philistines also raided the cities of the Judean foothills and the Negev of Judah and captured Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco and its villages, Timnah and its villages, Gimzo and its villages, and they lived there.

Sanballat and Geshem sent me a message: “Come, let’s meet together in the villages of the Ono Valley.” But they were planning to harm me.

These are the heads of the province who stayed in Jerusalem (but in the villages of Judah each lived on his own property in their towns—the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of Solomon’s servants—

The rest of Israel, the priests, and the Levites were in all the villages of Judah, each on his own inherited property.

As for the farming settlements with their fields:Some of Judah’s descendants lived in Kiriath-arba and its villages,Dibon and its villages, and Jekabzeel and its villages;

Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba and its villages;

in Ziklag and Meconah and its villages;

Zanoah and Adullam with their villages;in Lachish with its fields and Azekah and its villages.So they settled from Beer-sheba to the Valley of Hinnom.

Benjamin’s descendants:from Geba, Michmash, Aija,and Bethel—and its villages,

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

from Beth-gilgal, and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for they had built villages for themselves around Jerusalem.

This explains why the rural Jews who live in villages observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a time of rejoicing and feasting. It is a holiday when they send gifts to one another.

He waits in ambush near the villages;he kills the innocent in secret places.His eyes are on the lookout for the helpless;

“This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am about to bring on this city—and on all its dependent villages—all the disaster that I spoke against it, for they have become obstinate, not obeying My words.’”

Therefore look, the days are coming—this is the Lord’s declaration—when I will make the shout of battle heardagainst Rabbah of the Ammonites.It will become a desolate mound,and its villages will be burned down.Israel will dispossess their dispossessors,says the Lord.

and her villages on the mainland will be slaughtered by the sword. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”

He will slaughter your villages on the mainland with the sword. He will set up siege works against you, and will build a ramp and raise a wall of shields against you.

The day will be dark in Tehaphnehes,when I break the yoke of Egypt thereand its proud strengthcomes to an end in the city.A cloud will cover Tehaphnehes,and its villages will go into captivity.

You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of open villages; I will come against a tranquil people who are living securely, all of them living without walls and without bars or gates—

Then Jesus went to all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness.

When evening came, the disciples approached Him and said, “This place is a wilderness, and it is already late. Send the crowds away so they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”

And He said to them, “Let’s go on to the neighboring villages so that I may preach there too. This is why I have come.”

And He was amazed at their unbelief.Now He was going around the villages in a circuit, teaching.

Send them away, so they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages to buy themselves something to eat.”

Wherever He would go, into villages, towns, or the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged Him that they might touch just the tassel of His robe. And everyone who touched it was made well.

Jesus went out with His disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the road He asked His disciples, “Who do people say that I am?”

Late in the day, the Twelve approached and said to Him, “Send the crowd away, so they can go into the surrounding villages and countryside to find food and lodging, because we are in a deserted place here.”

Then, after they had testified and spoken the message of the Lord, they traveled back to Jerusalem, evangelizing many villages of the Samaritans.