Joshua 21:41

For the Levites, then, there were forty-eight cities in all, together with their pasturelands, within the territory of the Israelites.

Berean Standard Bible

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

40In all, twelve cities were allotted to the clans of Merari, the remaining Levite clans.

42Each of these cities had its own surrounding pasturelands; this was true for all the cities.

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Cross References

Genesis 49:7Cursed be their anger, for it is strong, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will disperse them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.

Numbers 35:7The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, with their corresponding pasturelands.

Joshua 21:3So by the command of the LORD, the Israelites gave the Levites these cities and their pasturelands out of their own inheritance:

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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