Joshua 21:41

All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities and their suburbs.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs.

In Context

40[These were] all the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, which remained of the families of the Levites, and their lot was twelve cities.

42Each one of these cities had its suburbs round about it: thus were all these cities.

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Cross References

Genesis 49:7Cursed be their anger, for it [was] violent; And their rage, for it [was] cruel! I will divide them in Jacob, And scatter them in Israel.

Numbers 35:7all the cities that ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, they and their suburbs.

Joshua 21:3And the children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the word of Jehovah, these cities and their suburbs.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 21:10-43

9 And 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, 10 Which 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. 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. 12 But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to… Read the whole commentary →

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