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1 Chronicles 6:56 KJV
1 Chronicles · chapter 6 · verse 56
But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.1 Chronicles 6:56 · King James Version
1 Chronicles 6:56 in context
54Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot.
55And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it.
56But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
57And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, namely, Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,
58And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- JephunnehYᵉphunnehJephunneh, the name of two IsraelitesH3312 →
- villageschâtsêra yardH2691 →
- fieldssâdeha fieldH7704 →
- CalebKâlêbCaleb, the name of three IsraelitesH3612 →
- cityʻîyra city in the widest senseH5892 →
- gavenâthanto give, used with greatest latitude of applicationH5414 →
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We have here an account of the Levites' cities. They are here called their castles (Ch1 6:54), not only because walled and fortified, and well guarded by the country (for it is the interest of every nation to protect its ministers), but because they and their possessions were, in a particular manner, the care of the…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 54-81