1 Chronicles 6:64

(6:49) And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their open spaces.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their suburbs.

In Context

63(6:48) Unto the sons of Merari after their families, from the tribe of Reuben, and from the tribe of Gad, and from the tribe of Zebulun, [were given] by lot, twelve cities.

65(6:50) And they gave by lot from the tribe of the children of Judah, and from the tribe of the children of Simeon, and from the tribe of the children of Benjamin these cities, which they called by names.

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Cross References

Joshua 21:3And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites from their inheritance, at the order of the Lord, these cities and their open spaces.

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 6:55-81

The Cities of the Levites. ( b. c. 1444.) 54 Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot. 55 And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it. 56 But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 57 And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, namely, Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs,… Read the whole commentary →

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