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Joshua 21:19 KJV
Joshua · chapter 21 · verse 19
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.Joshua 21:19 · King James Version
Joshua 21:19 in context
17And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,
18Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs; four cities.
19All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
20And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
21For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- thirteenshâlôwshthreeH7969 →
- thirteenʻâsârtenH6240 →
- priestskôhênliterally one officiating, a priestH3548 →
- citiesʻîyra city in the widest senseH5892 →
- AaronʼAhărôwnAharon, the brother of MosesH175 →
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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