1. 2 Samuel 2:3 (ESV)
  2. Eksposisi

What does it mean for Hebron to have towns?

2 Samuel 2:3 (ESV)

3 And David brought up his men who were with him, everyone with his household, and they lived in the towns of Hebron.

The main town of Hebron would have been surrounded by smaller villages. David and his men, a company of at least six hundred at this point in time (see 1 Samuel 23:13; 1 Samuel 25:13; 1 Samuel 27:2), did not all live in Hebron proper. Some of them went to live in the villages around the town.