Joshua 19:15
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New International Version (©2011)
Included were Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah and Bethlehem. There were twelve towns and their villages.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The towns in these areas included Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem--twelve towns with their surrounding villages.

English Standard Version (©2001)
and Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem—twelve cities with their villages.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Included also were Kattah and Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and Bethlehem; twelve cities with their villages.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
along with Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem--12 cities, with their villages.

International Standard Version (©2012)
and Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem, for a total of twelve towns and villages.

NET Bible (©2006)
Their territory included Kattah, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem; in all they had twelve cities and their towns.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
This also includes Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem. There were 12 cities with their villages.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.

American King James Version
And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.

American Standard Version
and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Cateth and Naalol and Semeron and Jedala and Bethlehem: twelve cities and their villages.

Darby Bible Translation
and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Jidalah, and Beth-lehem: twelve cities and their hamlets.

English Revised Version
and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-lehem: twelve cities with their villages.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-lehem; twelve cities with their villages.

World English Bible
Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.

Young's Literal Translation
and Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-Lehem; twelve cities and their villages.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

19:10-16 In the division to each tribe of Israel, the prophetic blessings of Jacob were fulfilled. They chose for themselves, or it was divided to them by lot, in the manner and places that he foresaw. So sure a rule to go by is the word of prophecy: we see by it what to believe, and it proves beyond all dispute the things that are of God.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 15. - Beth-lehem. This name, signifying the "house of bread," would naturally enough be given to a place in a fertile situation. We are not to suppose that it was "Bethlehem-Ephratah, among the thousands of Jadah" (Micah 5:2). It is now Beit-lahm, about eight miles in a westerly direction from Nazareth.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Kattath, and Nahallal,.... Of the two first of these we read nowhere else, but in Joshua 21:34,

and Shimron was a royal city, the king of which Joshua took and hanged, Joshua 11:1,

and Idalah is a place Bochart conjectures (t) where the goddess Venus was worshipped, Idalia being one of her names:

and Bethlehem is a different place from that which was the birthplace of our Lord, called Bethlehem of Judah, to distinguish it from this:

twelve cities with their villages; more are named, but some of them belonged to other tribes, and only lay on the borders of this; and others might not be properly cities, but small towns.

(t) Canaan, l. 1. c. 3. col. 356.

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Zebulun's Territory
…14And the border compasses it on the north side to Hannathon: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of Jiphthahel: 15And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages. 16This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.

Joshua 19:14 There the boundary went around on the north to Hannathon and ended at the Valley of Iphtah El.
Joshua 19:16 These towns and their villages were the inheritance of Zebulun, according to its clans.