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Subject type: Subject
Strong’s: G3598, H1870
Hebrew: דֶּ֫רֶךְ · derek
Greek: ὁδός · hodos

Strong’s and original-language information

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

ὁδός

G3598

Transliteration: hodos
Language: Greek
Part of speech: G:N-F
Indexed occurrences: 101

Glosses

road, journey, (high-)way

Lexicon definition

ὁδός, -οῦ, ἡ, [in LXX chiefly (very freq.) for דֶּרֶךְ ;] __1. a way, path, road: Mat.2:12, Mrk.10:46, Luk.3:5 al.; κατὰ τὴν ὁ., Luk.10:4, al.; παρὰ τὴν ὁ., Mat.13:4, al.; with genitive of person(s), (subj.), τὴν ὁ. ἑτοιμάζειν (fig.), Mat.3:3, Mrk.1:3, al.; with genitive term. (obj.), ἐθνῶν, Mat.10:5; τ. ἁγίων (figuratively), Heb.9:8; accusative, ὁδόν, with force of prep. (like Heb. דֶּרֶךְ; Bl., §34, 8; 35, 5), ὁ. θαλάσσης, Mat.4:15 (LXX). __2. A traveller's way, journey: ἐν τ. ὁ., Mat.5:25, Mrk.8:27, al.; ἐξ ὁ., Luk.11:6; εἰς ὁ., Mat.10:10; τ. ὁδὸν πορεύεσθαι, Act.8:39; ὁ. ἡμέρας, Luk.2:44; ὁδὸν ποιεῖν (= cl., ὁ. ποιεῖσθαι; V. Field, Notes, 25), to make one's way, i.e. proceed on one's journey, Mrk.2:23. __3. Metaphorical (cl.; but esp. frequently in Heb.; see Cremer, 442ff.), of a course of conduct, a way of thinking or acting: Act.14:16, 1Co.4:17 12:31, Jas.1:8 5:20; τοῦ Κάϊν, Ju 11; τ. Βαλαάμ, 2Pe.2:15; εἰρήνης, Rom.3:17; ζωῆς, Act.2:28; ἡ ὁ. ἡ ἀπάγουσα εἰς τ. ζωήν (Dalman, Words, 160), Mat.7:14; τ. δικαιοσύνης, Mat.21:32; σωτηρίας, Act.16:17; αἱ ὁ. τ. θεοῦ (κυρίου), Act.13:10, Rom.11:33, Rev.15:3 (cf. Hos.14:9 Psa.94 (95):10, Sir.39:24, al.); ἡ ὁ. τ. θεοῦ (the way approved by God), Mat.22:16, Mrk.12:14, Luk.20:21; id., of the Christian religion, Act.18:26; so, absol., ἡ ὁ., Act.9:2 19:9, 23 24:22; of Christ as the means of approach to God, Jhn.14:6. __4. Ellipsis of ὁ.: ποίας (sc. ὁδοῦ), Luk.5:19; ἐκείνης, ib. 19:4 (see Bl., §36, 13; 44, 1). (AS)

A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament

Ὁδός

G3598

Transliteration: hodós
Language: Greek
Indexed occurrences: 101

Glosses

journey, (high-)way

Lexicon definition

a way, road, Mat. 2.12; 7.13, 14; 8.28; 22.9, 10; means of access, approach, entrance, Jno. 14.6. He. 9.8; direction, quarter, region, Mat. 4.15; 10.5; the act of journeying, a journey, way, course, Mat. 10.10. Mar. 2.23. 1 Th. 3.11, et al.; a journey, as regards extent, Ac. 1.12; met. a way, systematic course of pursuit, Lu. 1.79. Ac. 2.28; 16.17; a way, systematic course of action or conduct, Mat. 21.32. Ro. 11.33. 1 Co. 4.17, et al.; a way, system of doctrine, Ac. 18.26; ἡ ὁδός, the way, the Christian faith, Ac. 19.9, 23; 24.22.

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דֶּ֫רֶךְ

H1870

Transliteration: derek
Pronunciation: deh'-rek
Language: Hebrew
Indexed occurrences: 706

Glosses

way, road, distance, journey, manner, along, away, because of, [phrase] by, conversation, custom, (east-) ward, journey, manner, passenger, through, toward, (high-) (path-) way(-side), whither(-soever).

Lexicon definition

a road (as trodden)

figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

דֶּרֶךְ

H1870

Transliteration: derek
Pronunciation: deh'-rek
Language: Hebrew
Indexed occurrences: 706

Glosses

along, away, because of, [phrase] by, conversation, custom, (east-) ward, journey, manner, passenger, through, toward, (high-) (path-) way(-side), whither(-soever).

Lexicon definition

a road (as trodden)

figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Road

(1 Sam. 27:10; R.V., "raid"), an inroad, an incursion. This word is never used in Scripture in the sense of a way or path.

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Strong's Concordance

Road

Indexed occurrences: 100

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Strong's Concordance

Roads

Indexed occurrences: 11

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All Scripture references672 references

Genesis 30

Deuteronomy 43

Joshua 16

Joshua 1:8 Joshua 2:7 Joshua 2:16 Joshua 2:22 Joshua 3:4 Joshua 5:4 Joshua 5:5 Joshua 5:7 Joshua 8:15 Joshua 9:11 Joshua 9:13 Joshua 10:10 Joshua 12:3 Joshua 22:5 Joshua 23:14 Joshua 24:17

Judges 20

Ruth 1

Ruth 1:7

1 Samuel 26

2 Samuel 14

2 Samuel 2:24 2 Samuel 4:7 2 Samuel 11:10 2 Samuel 13:30 2 Samuel 13:34 2 Samuel 15:2 2 Samuel 15:23 2 Samuel 16:13 2 Samuel 18:23 2 Samuel 20:12 2 Samuel 20:13 2 Samuel 22:22 2 Samuel 22:31 2 Samuel 22:33

1 Kings 39

2 Kings 22

2 Chronicles 23

Ezra 4

Ezra 2:27 Ezra 8:21 Ezra 8:22 Ezra 8:31

Nehemiah 2

Nehemiah 9:12 Nehemiah 9:19

Job 32

Psalms 64

Proverbs 69

Proverbs 1:15 Proverbs 1:31 Proverbs 2:8 Proverbs 2:12 Proverbs 2:13 Proverbs 2:20 Proverbs 3:6 Proverbs 3:17 Proverbs 3:23 Proverbs 3:31 Proverbs 4:11 Proverbs 4:14 Proverbs 4:19 Proverbs 4:26 Proverbs 5:8 Proverbs 5:21 Proverbs 6:6 Proverbs 6:23 Proverbs 7:8 Proverbs 7:19 Proverbs 7:25 Proverbs 7:27 Proverbs 8:2 Proverbs 8:13 Proverbs 8:22 Proverbs 8:32 Proverbs 9:6 Proverbs 9:15 Proverbs 10:9 Proverbs 10:29 Proverbs 11:5 Proverbs 11:20 Proverbs 12:15 Proverbs 12:26 Proverbs 12:28 Proverbs 13:6 Proverbs 13:15 Proverbs 14:2 Proverbs 14:8 Proverbs 14:12 Proverbs 14:14 Proverbs 15:9 Proverbs 15:19 Proverbs 16:2 Proverbs 16:7 Proverbs 16:9 Proverbs 16:17 Proverbs 16:25 Proverbs 16:29 Proverbs 16:31 Proverbs 19:3 Proverbs 19:16 Proverbs 20:24 Proverbs 21:2 Proverbs 21:8 Proverbs 21:16 Proverbs 21:29 Proverbs 22:5 Proverbs 22:6 Proverbs 23:19 Proverbs 23:26 Proverbs 26:13 Proverbs 28:6 Proverbs 28:10 Proverbs 28:18 Proverbs 29:27 Proverbs 30:19 Proverbs 30:20 Proverbs 31:3

Ecclesiastes 4

Ecclesiastes 10:3 Ecclesiastes 11:5 Ecclesiastes 11:9 Ecclesiastes 12:5

Isaiah 44

Jeremiah 47

Lamentations 6

Lamentations 1:4 Lamentations 1:12 Lamentations 2:15 Lamentations 3:9 Lamentations 3:11 Lamentations 3:40

Ezekiel 79

Ezekiel 3:18 Ezekiel 3:19 Ezekiel 7:3 Ezekiel 7:4 Ezekiel 7:8 Ezekiel 7:9 Ezekiel 7:27 Ezekiel 8:5 Ezekiel 9:2 Ezekiel 9:10 Ezekiel 11:21 Ezekiel 13:22 Ezekiel 14:22 Ezekiel 14:23 Ezekiel 16:25 Ezekiel 16:27 Ezekiel 16:31 Ezekiel 16:43 Ezekiel 16:47 Ezekiel 16:61 Ezekiel 18:23 Ezekiel 18:25 Ezekiel 18:29 Ezekiel 18:30 Ezekiel 20:30 Ezekiel 20:43 Ezekiel 20:44 Ezekiel 21:2 Ezekiel 21:19 Ezekiel 21:20 Ezekiel 21:21 Ezekiel 21:24 Ezekiel 21:25 Ezekiel 21:26 Ezekiel 22:31 Ezekiel 23:13 Ezekiel 23:31 Ezekiel 24:14 Ezekiel 28:15 Ezekiel 33:8 Ezekiel 33:9 Ezekiel 33:11 Ezekiel 33:17 Ezekiel 33:20 Ezekiel 36:17 Ezekiel 36:19 Ezekiel 36:31 Ezekiel 36:32 Ezekiel 40:6 Ezekiel 40:10 Ezekiel 40:20 Ezekiel 40:22 Ezekiel 40:24 Ezekiel 40:27 Ezekiel 40:32 Ezekiel 40:44 Ezekiel 40:45 Ezekiel 40:46 Ezekiel 41:11 Ezekiel 41:12 Ezekiel 42:1 Ezekiel 42:4 Ezekiel 42:7 Ezekiel 42:10 Ezekiel 42:11 Ezekiel 42:12 Ezekiel 42:15 Ezekiel 43:1 Ezekiel 43:2 Ezekiel 43:4 Ezekiel 44:1 Ezekiel 44:3 Ezekiel 44:4 Ezekiel 46:2 Ezekiel 46:8 Ezekiel 46:9 Ezekiel 47:2 Ezekiel 47:15 Ezekiel 48:1

Hosea 8

Hosea 2:8 Hosea 4:9 Hosea 6:9 Hosea 9:8 Hosea 10:13 Hosea 12:3 Hosea 13:7 Hosea 14:10

Joel 1

Joel 2:7

Amos 3

Amos 2:7 Amos 4:10 Amos 8:14

Jonah 2

Jonah 3:8 Jonah 3:10

Micah 1

Micah 4:2

Nahum 3

Nahum 1:3 Nahum 2:1 Nahum 2:2

Haggai 2

Haggai 1:5 Haggai 1:7

Zechariah 3

Zechariah 1:4 Zechariah 1:6 Zechariah 3:7

Malachi 3

Malachi 2:8 Malachi 2:9 Malachi 3:1

Matthew 6

Matthew 3:3 Matthew 10:5 Matthew 10:10 Matthew 20:30 Matthew 21:8 Matthew 21:19

Mark 5

Mark 10:32 Mark 10:46 Mark 10:52 Mark 11:1 Mark 11:8

Luke 8

Luke 9:57 Luke 10:4 Luke 10:31 Luke 18:35 Luke 19:29 Luke 19:36 Luke 24:32 Luke 24:35

John 1

John 4:3

Acts 8

Acts 8:26 Acts 8:36 Acts 9:17 Acts 9:27 Acts 10:1 Acts 24:27 Acts 26:13 Acts 28:15

Topical Bible

Nave's Topical Bible

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Nave’s Topical Bible references for ROADS.

Indexed references: 7

Scripture references:

Deuteronomy 2:27 Joshua 10:10 Judges 21:19 John 4:3 Judges 20:31 Deuteronomy 19:3 Numbers 20:17

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Scripture Connections

Matthew 3:3

Matthew explicitly identifies John the Baptist with Isaiah's wilderness herald.

Sources

Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
Historical Reference: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
Historical Reference: concordance
Historical Reference: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)
Historical Reference: A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament
Historical Reference: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
UNLEARN Synthesis: UNLEARN reviewed seed connections

Ancient Context8 items

Josephus Antiquities Whiston

How The Sea Was Divided Asunder For The Hebrews, When They Were Pursued By The Egyptians, And So Gave Them An Opportunity Of Escaping From Them.

Antiquities Book 2, Chapter 16

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

Concerning The Fortitude Of Samson, And What Mischiefs He Brought Upon The Philistines.

Antiquities Book 5, Chapter 8

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

How David, When He Had Recovered His Kingdom, Was Reconciled To Shimei, And To Ziba; And Showed A Great Affection To Barzillai; And How, Upon The Rise Of A Sedition, He Made Amasa Captain Of His Host, In Order To Pursue Seba; Which Amasa Was Slain By Joab.

Antiquities Book 7, Chapter 11

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

How Jehu Was Anointed King, And Slew Both Joram And Ahaziah; As Also What He Did For The Punishment Of The Wicked.

Antiquities Book 9, Chapter 6

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

How Herod Got Away From The King Of Arabia And Made Haste To Go Into Egypt And Thence Went Away In Haste Also To Rome; And How, By Promising A Great Deal Of Money To Antony He Obtained Of The Senate And Of Cæsar To Be Made King Of The Jews.

Antiquities Book 14, Chapter 14

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

How Herod Sailed Out Of Italy To Judea, And Fought With Antigonus And What Other Things Happened In Judea About That Time.

Antiquities Book 14, Chapter 15

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

What Befell The Jews That Were In Babylon On Occasion Of Asineus And Anileus, Two Brethren.

Antiquities Book 18, Chapter 9

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

How Caius 1 Was Slain By Cherea.

Antiquities Book 19, Chapter 1

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Appii Forum

I.e., "the market of Appius" (Acts 28:15, R.V.), a town on the road, the "Appian Way," from Rome to Brundusium. It was 43 miles from Rome. Here Paul was met by some Roman Christians on his way to the capital. It was natural that they should halt here and wait for him, because from this place there were two ways by which travellers might journey to Rome.

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Beth-phage

House of the unripe fig, a village on the Mount of Olives, on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho (Matt. 21:1; Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29), and very close to Bethany. It was the limit of a Sabbath-day's journey from Jerusalem, i.e., 2,000 cubits. It has been identified with the modern Kefr-et-Tur.

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By-ways

Only in Judg. 5:6 and Ps. 125:5; literally "winding or twisted roads." The margin has "crooked ways."

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Caesarea

(Palestinae), a city on the shore of the Mediterranean, on the great road from Tyre to Egypt, about 70 miles northwest of Jerusalem, at the northern extremity of the plain of Sharon. It was built by Herod the Great (B.C. 10), who named it after Caesar Augustus, hence called Caesarea Sebaste (Gr. Sebastos = "Augustus"), on the site of an old town called "Strato's Tower." It was the capital of the Roman province of Judaea, the seat of the governors or procurators, and the headquarters of the Roman troops. It was the great Gentile city of Palestine, with a spacious artificial harbour. It was adorned with many buildings of great splendour, after the manner of the Roman cities of the West. Here Cornelius the centurion was converted through the instrumentality of Peter (Acts 10:1, 24), and thus for the first time the door of faith was opened to the Gentiles. Philip the evangelist resided here with his four daughters (21:8). From this place Saul sailed for his native Tarsus when forced to flee from Jerusalem (9:30), and here he landed when returning from his second missionary journey (18:22). He remained as a prisoner here for two years before his voyage to Rome (Acts 24:27; 25:1, 4, 6, 13). Here on a "set day," when games were celebrated in the theatre in honour of the emperor Claudius, Herod Agrippa I. appeared among the people in great pomp, and in the midst of the idolatrous homage paid to him was suddenly smitten by an angel, and carried out a dying man. He was "eaten of worms" (12:19-23), thus perishing by the same loathsome disease as his granfather, Herod the Great. It still retains its ancient name Kaiseriyeh, but is now desolate. "The present inhabitants of the ruins are snakes, scorpions, lizards, wild boars, and jackals." It is described as the most desolate city of all Palestine.

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Chance

(Luke 10:31). "It was not by chance that the priest came down by that road at that time, but by a specific arrangement and in exact fulfilment of a plan; not the plan of the priest, nor the plan of the wounded traveller, but the plan of God. By coincidence (Gr. sungkuria) the priest came down, that is, by the conjunction of two things, in fact, which were previously constituted a pair in the providence of God. In the result they fell together according to the omniscient Designer's plan. This is the true theory of the divine government." Compare the meeting of Philip with the Ethiopian (Acts 8:26, 27). There is no "chance" in God's empire. "Chance" is only another word for our want of knowledge as to the way in which one event falls in with another (1 Sam. 6:9; Eccl. 9:11).

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Colossae

Or Colosse, a city of Phrygia, on the Lycus, which is a tributary of the Maeander. It was about 12 miles above Laodicea, and near the great road from Ephesus to the Euphrates, and was consequently of some mercantile importance. It does not appear that Paul had visited this city when he wrote his letter to the church there (Col. 1:2). He expresses in his letter to Philemon (ver. 1:22) his hope to visit it on being delivered from his imprisonment. From Col. 1:7; 4:12 it has been concluded that Epaphras was the founder of the Colossian church. This town afterwards fell into decay, and the modern town of Chonas or Chonum occupies a site near its ruins.

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Highway

A raised road for public use. Such roads were not found in Palestine; hence the force of the language used to describe the return of the captives and the advent of the Messiah (Isa. 11:16; 35:8; 40:3; 62:10) under the figure of the preparation of a grand thoroughfare for their march. During their possession of Palestine the Romans constructed several important highways, as they did in all countries which they ruled.

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Michmash

Something hidden, a town of Benjamin (Ezra 2:27), east of Bethel and south of Migron, on the road to Jerusalem (Isa. 10:28). It lay on the line of march of an invading army from the north, on the north side of the steep and precipitous Wady es-Suweinit ("valley of the little thorn-tree" or "the acacia"), and now bears the name of Mukhmas. This wady is called "the passage of Michmash" (1 Sam. 13:23). Immediately facing Mukhmas, on the opposite side of the ravine, is the modern representative of Geba, and behind this again are Ramah and Gibeah. This was the scene of a great battle fought between the army of Saul and the Philistines, who were utterly routed and pursued for some 16 miles towards Philistia as far as the valley of Aijalon. "The freedom of Benjamin secured at Michmash led through long years of conflict to the freedom of all its kindred tribes." The power of Benjamin and its king now steadily increased. A new spirit and a new hope were now at work in Israel. (See [399]SAUL.)

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Migdal-Edar

Tower of the flock, a place 2 miles south of Jerusalem, near the Bethlehem road (Gen. 35:21). (See [402]EDAR.)

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Pannag

(Ezek. 27:17; marg. R.V., "perhaps a kind of confection") the Jews explain as the name of a kind of sweet pastry. Others take it as the name of some place, identifying it with Pingi, on the road between Damascus and Baalbec. "Pannaga" is the Sanscrit name of an aromatic plant (comp. Gen. 43:11).

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Road

(1 Sam. 27:10; R.V., "raid"), an inroad, an incursion. This word is never used in Scripture in the sense of a way or path.

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Sirah

Retiring, a well from which Joab's messenger brought back Abner (2 Sam. 3:26). It is now called Ain Sarah, and is situated about a mile from Hebron, on the road to the north.

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Complete dictionary entries

Road

Concordance

Road

Roads

Genesis 30

Exodus 13

Leviticus 1

Numbers 19

Deuteronomy 43

Joshua 16

Judges 20

Ruth 1

1 Samuel 26

2 Samuel 14

1 Kings 39

2 Kings 22

2 Chronicles 23

Ezra 4

Nehemiah 2

Job 32

Psalms 64

Proverbs 69

Ecclesiastes 4

Isaiah 44

Jeremiah 47

Lamentations 6

Ezekiel 79

Hosea 8

Joel 1

Amos 3

Jonah 2

Micah 1

Nahum 3

Haggai 2

Zechariah 3

Malachi 3

Matthew 6

Mark 5

Luke 8

John 1

Acts 8

Topical Bible

ROADS

Scripture Connections

Matthew 3:3

Sources

How The Sea Was Divided Asunder For The Hebrews, When They Were Pursued By The Egyptians, And So Gave Them An Opportunity Of Escaping From Them.

Concerning The Fortitude Of Samson, And What Mischiefs He Brought Upon The Philistines.

How David, When He Had Recovered His Kingdom, Was Reconciled To Shimei, And To Ziba; And Showed A Great Affection To Barzillai; And How, Upon The Rise Of A Sedition, He Made Amasa Captain Of His Host, In Order To Pursue Seba; Which Amasa Was Slain By Joab.

How Jehu Was Anointed King, And Slew Both Joram And Ahaziah; As Also What He Did For The Punishment Of The Wicked.

How Herod Got Away From The King Of Arabia And Made Haste To Go Into Egypt And Thence Went Away In Haste Also To Rome; And How, By Promising A Great Deal Of Money To Antony He Obtained Of The Senate And Of Cæsar To Be Made King Of The Jews.

How Herod Sailed Out Of Italy To Judea, And Fought With Antigonus And What Other Things Happened In Judea About That Time.

What Befell The Jews That Were In Babylon On Occasion Of Asineus And Anileus, Two Brethren.

How Caius 1 Was Slain By Cherea.

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Appii Forum

Beth-phage

By-ways

Caesarea

Chance

Colossae

Highway

Michmash

Migdal-Edar

Pannag

Road

Sirah

Deuteronomy

Joshua