Joshua 15:60
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New International Version (©2011)
Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim) and Rabbah--two towns and their villages.

New Living Translation (©2007)
There were also Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim) and Rabbah--two towns with their surrounding villages.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah: two cities with their villages.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah; two cities with their villages.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah--two cities, with their villages.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Also included were Kiriath-baal (also known as Kiriath-jearim) and Rabbah, for a total of two cities and villages.

NET Bible (©2006)
Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim) and Rabbah--a total of two cities and their towns.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The two cities of Kiriath Baal (now called Kiriath Jearim) and Rabbah with their villages [were given to Judah].

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Kiriathbaal, which is Kiriathjearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages:

American King James Version
Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages:

American Standard Version
Kiriath-baal (the same is Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah; two cities with their villages.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Cariathbaal, the same is Cariathiarim, the city of woods, and Arebba: two cities and their villages.

Darby Bible Translation
Kirjath-Baal, that is, Kirjath-jearim, and Rabbah: two cities and their hamlets.

English Revised Version
Kirjath-baal (the same is Kirjath-jearim), and Rabbah; two cities with their villages.

Webster's Bible Translation
Kirjath-baal (which is Kirjath-jearim) and Rabbah; two cities with their villages:

World English Bible
Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), and Rabbah; two cities with their villages.

Young's Literal Translation
Kirjath-Baal (it is Kirjath-Jearim), and Rabbah; two cities and their villages.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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, Mic 5:2, except that it was thus honoured, was now so little as not to be accounted one of the cities.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 60. - Kirjath Baal. Before these words the LXX. insert the names of eleven more cities, among which Tekoah and Bethlehem are included. For the former see 2 Samuel 14:2; 2 Chronicles 11:6; 2 Chronicles 20:20. The prophet Amos was one of its herdsmen (Amos 1:1). We learn from 1 Maccab. 9:33, etc., that it was near Jordan, and had a waste district in its vicinity. It has been identified with Teku'a, two hours south of Bethlehem. Of Bethlehem itself, the home of Ruth and David, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, it is unnecessary to speak. But the incidents related concerning Bethlehem in Judges 17, 19. (which seem to indicate that the author of the book had special information about Bethlehem), as well as the narrative of the Book of Ruth, lead us to suppose that the verse inserted here by the LXX. is genuine, since Bethlehem was, in early times, a town of sufficient importance to be noticed in a list like this, and that its omission in the Hebrew text is due to the mistake of some transcriber.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Kirjathbaal, (which is Kirjathjearim,),.... Of Kirjathbaal, and its several names; see Gill on Joshua 15:9,

and Rabbah, of which we nowhere else read; for this is a very different city from the Rabbah of the children of Ammon, 2 Samuel 12:26,

two cities with their villages; why these are reckoned by themselves is not certain.

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The Cities of Judah
…59And Maarath, and Bethanoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages: 60Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages: 61In the wilderness, Betharabah, Middin, and Secacah, …

Joshua 9:17 So the Israelites set out and on the third day came to their cities: Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth and Kiriath Jearim.
Joshua 15:59 Maarath, Beth Anoth and Eltekon--six towns and their villages.
Joshua 15:61 In the wilderness: Beth Arabah, Middin, Sekakah,
Joshua 18:14 From the hill facing Beth Horon on the south the boundary turned south along the western side and came out at Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim), a town of the people of Judah. This was the western side.
1 Samuel 6:21 Then they sent messengers to the people of Kiriath Jearim, saying, "The Philistines have returned the ark of the LORD. Come down and take it up to your town."