Joshua 21:41

(21:39) All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their open spaces.

Leeser Tanakh

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(21:38) All the cities for the children of Merari after their families, they who were remaining of the families of the Levites, even their lot was twelve cities.

42(21:40) These cities were every one with their open spaces round about them: thus it was with all these cities.

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Cross References

Genesis 49:7Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce; and their wrath, for it is cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

Numbers 35:7All the cities which ye shall [thus] give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities, they with their open spaces.

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 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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