Joshua 21:41

So the Lord gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers: and they inherited it, and lived in it.

LXX2012 (US English)

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

40and their suburbs round about these cities: a city and the suburbs round about the city to all these cities: and Joshua ceased dividing the land by their borders: and the children of Israel gave a portion to Joshua because of the commandment of the Lord: they gave him the city which he asked: they gave him Thamnasachar in mount Ephraim; and Joshua built the city, and lived in it: 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.

42And the Lord gave them rest round about, as he swore to their fathers: not one of all their enemies maintained his ground against them; the Lord delivered all their enemies into their hands.

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Cross References

Genesis 49:7Cursed be their wrath, for it was willful, 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 35:7You⌃ 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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