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Joshua 21:11 KJV
Joshua · chapter 21 · verse 11
And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.Joshua 21:11 · King James Version
Joshua 21:11 in context
9And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned by name,
10Which the children of Aaron, being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first lot.
11And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.
12But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
13Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with her suburbs,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- suburbsmigrâsha suburbH4054 →
- fatherʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- HebronChebrôwnChebron, a place in Palestine, also the name of two IsraelitesH2275 →
- JudahYᵉhûwdâhJehudah , the name of five IsraelitesH3063 →
- gavenâthanto give, used with greatest latitude of applicationH5414 →
- cityqiryâhbuildingH7151 →
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We have here a particular account of the cities which were given to the children of Levi out of the several tribes, not only to be occupied and inhabited by them, as tenants to the several tribes in which they lay - no, their interest in them was not dependent and precarious, but to be owned and possessed by them as…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-42