Nehemiah 11:31
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New International Version (©2011)
The descendants of the Benjamites from Geba lived in Mikmash, Aija, Bethel and its settlements,

New Living Translation (©2007)
Some of the people of Benjamin lived at Geba, Micmash, Aija, and Bethel with its settlements.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The people of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash, Aija, Bethel and its villages,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The sons of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, at Bethel and its towns,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages,

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Benjamin's descendants: from Geba, Michmash, Aija, and Bethel--and its villages,

International Standard Version (©2012)
The descendants of Benjamin lived from Geba to Michmash, Aija, Bethel and its villages,

NET Bible (©2006)
Some of the descendants of Benjamin settled in Geba, Micmash, Aija, Bethel and its villages,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Benjamin's descendants live in the area of Geba, in Michmash, Aija, Bethel and its villages,

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Beth-el, and in their villages,

American King James Version
The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelled at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages.

American Standard Version
The children of Benjamin also dwelt from Geba onward , at Michmash and Aija, and at Beth-el and the towns thereof,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the children of Benjamin, from Geba, at Mechmas, and at Hai, and at Bethel, and in the villages thereof,

Darby Bible Translation
And the children of Benjamin from Geba dwelt in Michmash and Aija and Bethel, and their dependent villages,

English Revised Version
The children of Benjamin also dwelt from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, and at Beth-el and the towns thereof;

Webster's Bible Translation
The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Beth-el, and in their villages.

World English Bible
The children of Benjamin also [lived] from Geba [onward], at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns,

Young's Literal Translation
And sons of Benjamin are at Geba, Michmash, and Aija, and Beth-El, and its small towns,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

11:1-36 The distribution of the people. - In all ages, men have preferred their own ease and advantage to the public good. Even the professors of religion too commonly seek their own, and not the things of Christ. Few have had such attachment to holy things and holy places, as to renounce pleasure for their sake. Yet surely, our souls should delight to dwell where holy persons and opportunities of spiritual improvement most abound. If we have not this love to the city of our God, and to every thing that assists our communion with the Saviour, how shall we be willing to depart hence; to be absent from the body, that we may be present with the Lord? To the carnal-minded, the perfect holiness of the New Jerusalem would be still harder to bear than the holiness of God's church on earth. Let us seek first the favour of God, and his glory; let us study to be patient, contented, and useful in our several stations, and wait, with cheerful hope, for admission into the holy city of God.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 31. - The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash. Rather, "Also the children of Benjamin dwelt from Geba to Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel," etc. Geba was reckoned an extreme city of Benjamin towards the west, and consequently occurs last in the first list of Joshua (Nehemiah 18:24). Its proximity to Michmash and Aija (Aiath) appears in Isaiah 10:28, 29. All three places were in the near vicinity of Bethel.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The children also of Benjamin, from Geba, dwelt at Michmash,.... Geba was a city on the southern border of Benjamin, Joshua 18:24 and Michmash on the northern, of which see 1 Samuel 13:2 in this and the four following verses are the names of several cities in the tribe of Benjamin, inhabited by the men of that tribe, as Alia, the same with Ai, that lay on the east of Bethel, here also mentioned, see Joshua 7:2 Anathoth, the birth place of Jeremiah the prophet, Jeremiah 1:1. Nob, a city of the priests, 1 Samuel 21:1. Ananiah is nowhere else mentioned; Hazor is to be distinguished from another of this name in the tribe of Naphtali, Joshua 19:36. Ramah, a place well known in Benjamin, Joshua 18:25. Gittaim, of which see 2 Samuel 4:3. Hadid, the same with Adida, which lay in a plain,"Simon also set up Adida in Sephela, and made it strong with gates and bars.'' (1 Maccabees 12:38)Zeboim, a valley of this name, is read in 1 Samuel 13:18. Neballat we read of nowhere else; of Lod and Ono, see 1 Chronicles 8:12 and the valley of craftsmen, or Chorasin, 1 Chronicles 4:14.

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…30Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And they dwelled from Beersheba to the valley of Hinnom. 31The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelled at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages. 32And at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah, …

1 Samuel 13:2 Saul chose three thousand men from Israel; two thousand were with him at Mikmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah in Benjamin. The rest of the men he sent back to their homes.
Nehemiah 11:30 Zanoah, Adullam and their villages, in Lachish and its fields, and in Azekah and its settlements. So they were living all the way from Beersheba to the Valley of Hinnom.
Nehemiah 11:32 in Anathoth, Nob and Ananiah,