Joshua 21:39
Heshbon with its pastures, and Jazer with its pastures, four towns in all.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all.
In Context
40All the towns allotted to the Merarite families, the rest of the Levites, numbered twelve.
Cross References
Joshua 13:21that is, all the towns on the tableland, all the realm of Sihon, the Amorite king who reigned in Heshbon and was defeated by Moses along with the Midianite leaders Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, Sihon’s princes throughout the land.
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 →