Joshua 21:41

All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the children of Israel, were forty-eight cities,

Brenton Septuagint

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

40All these cities were given to the sons of Merari according to the families of them that were left out of the tribe of Levi; and + 21:40 i. e. the portion allotted, or assigned them.their limits were the twelve cities.

42d and Joshua took the knives of stone, wherewith he circumcised the children of Israel that were born in the desert by the way, and put them in Thamnasachar.

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Cross References

Genesis 49:7Cursed be their wrath, for it was wilful, and their anger, for it was + 49:7 more lit. hardened or aggravated.cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

Numbers 35:7Ye shall give to the Levites in all forty-eight cities, them and their suburbs.

Joshua 21:3So the children of Israel gave to the Levites in their inheritance by the command of the Lord the cities and the country round.

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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