Verse Lens · Context pointer
Joshua 20:8 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 8. 8And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
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Role in This Section
Joshua 20:8 contributes this concrete line to the movement: “And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain…”.
Read It With
- Joshua 20:7–9
Read Joshua 20:8 with 20:7–9. Joshua 20:8 advances “Six Refuge Cities Are Appointed for Israel and the Resident Foreigner” with the textual step “And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain…”. The complete unit establishes this movement: Kedesh, Shechem, Hebron, Bezer, Ramoth, and Golan are appointed on both sides of the Jordan for Israelites and resident foreigners who kill unintentionally and need protection pending judgment.
Why It Needs Context
Joshua 20:8 advances “Six Refuge Cities Are Appointed for Israel and the Resident Foreigner” with the textual step “And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain…”. Its meaning depends on the complete named-place record and the narrative or administrative purpose of Joshua 20:7-9; one name cannot carry the whole unit's claim.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Joshua 20:7-9 — Six Refuge Cities Are Appointed for Israel and the Resident ForeignerSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Joshua 20:7-9, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Joshua
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, clauses, names, repeated roots, boundary formulas, covenant terms, and the base text behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Josh.xml, 20:7–9
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